"The Future? I say, either live it, or live with it!"
-- Firesign Theatre (comedy album)
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-- - - - - - What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Epictetus, Greek Philosopher The map is NOT the territory.
Korzybski, Polish-American Philosopher
What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm?
What is a thought, compared to the mind?
Our unity is full of wonder, which your tiny individualism cannot even conceive.
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There are no truths in science, only the falsifiable hypotheses and explanations of the people who test them.
The simplest solution is often the correct one (i.e. when you hear hoofbeats, think horses - not zebras).
moo
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On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before."
Quoth the raven "Nevermore."
~ From THE RAVEN by Edgar Allan Poe ~
Bored with these signature quotes now.
Park them here and look for new ones
"The universe is not only stranger than we know,
it is stranger than we can know"
Arthur C Clarke
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know.
There are known unkowns. That is to say, there are things we know we don't know.
But, there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know.
-- Rumsfield
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"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden." ~Orson Scott Card
One must know the extent of the box before thinking outside of it, and one needn't know what is right to say what is wrong.
- Roger Thelonious George -
---------------- semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter