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• If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 10E5, I know he's full of crap.
  -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988) -- "What Do You Care What Other People Think?...
• When I left the meeting, I had the definite impression that I had found the same game as with the seal
  management reducing criteria and accepting more and more errors that weren't designed into the device, while the engineers are screaming from below, "HELP!...
• My father had the spirit and integrity of a scientist, but he was a salesman.
  I remember asking him the question "How can a man of integrity be a salesman?...
• The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be.
  If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally....
• But then a new problem came up: the Jupiter probe, Galileo, was going to use a power supply that runs on heat generated by radioactivity.
  If the shuttle carrying Galileo failed, radioactivity could be spread over a large area....
• What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
  -- A. Robert Turgo...
• In fact, I think Linus's [= Linus Torvalds'] cleverest and most consequential hack was not the construction of the Linux kernel itself, but rather his invention of the Linux development model.
  When I expressed this opinion in his presence once, he smiled and quietly repeated something he has often said...
• Quote #296 [about the usenet as elephant horde metaphor] It was Gene Spafford.
  I have it (he posted it himself) as: In closing, I'd like to repost my 3 axioms of Usenet....
• Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,.
  .. he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?...