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• A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
  -- O.G. Sutto...
• The first time, it's a KLUDGE! The second, a trick.
  Later, it's a well-established technique! -- Mike Broido, Intermetric...
• crock n. [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] 1.
  An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
  1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....
• Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of muy hat!" "But that trick NEVER works!
  "This time fer sure!...
• Hey Rocky! Watch me pull some intelligence out of the internet!
  But that trick never works. This time for sure....
• Programming by Monte Carlo methods is frowned upon.