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authortg <tg@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-24 12:15:00 +0000
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Add some fortunes and re-order the Feynman problem solving algorithm.
Thanks to gsutter for the quotes. Reviewed by: jkh
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@@ -16957,6 +16957,15 @@ For a light heart lives long.
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For adult education nothing beats children.
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+For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and
+women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant
+religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith.
+The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the
+known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to
+prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to
+misery hereafter. The few have said "Think". The many have said "Believe!"
+ -- Robert Ingersoll, "Gods"
+%
For an idea to be fashionable is ominous,
since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
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@@ -30612,6 +30621,9 @@ Many people resent being treated like the person they really are.
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Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say.
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+Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.
+ -- Bertrand Russell
+%
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
-- Publilius Syrus
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@@ -31081,6 +31093,10 @@ Men live for three things, fast cars, fast women and fast food.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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+Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it
+from religious conviction.
+ -- Blaise Pascal, "Pensées", 1670
+%
Men never make passes at girls wearing glasses.
-- Dorothy Parker
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@@ -32549,6 +32565,7 @@ It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
+ -- Robert Heinlein
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Never use "etc." -- it makes people think there is more where
there is not or that there is not space to list it all, etc.
@@ -37728,12 +37745,6 @@ Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature
cannot be fooled.
-- R.P. Feynman
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-The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm:
- (1) write down the problem.
- (2) think very hard.
- (3) write down the answer.
- --Murray Gell-mann
-%
Really?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!
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Reappraisal, n:
@@ -40541,6 +40552,11 @@ Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy
have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
-- Martin Luther
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+Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is
+none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities,
+sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.
+ -- Murray Gell-Mann, "Quark and the Jaguar"
+%
Supervisor: Do you think you understand the basic ideas of Quantum Mechanics?
Supervisee: Ah! Well, what do we mean by "to understand" in the context of
Quantum Mechanics?
@@ -40587,10 +40603,6 @@ Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest
men in national government too.
-- Richard M. Nixon
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-Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are
-dishonest men in national government too.
- -- Richard Nixon
-%
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."
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@@ -42352,6 +42364,12 @@ anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their
husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism
and become lesbians."
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+The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm:
+ (1) write down the problem.
+ (2) think very hard.
+ (3) write down the answer.
+ -- Murray Gell-Mann
+%
The Fifth Rule:
You have taken yourself too seriously.
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@@ -45697,6 +45715,10 @@ The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
The whole of life is futile unless you
consider it as a sporting proposition.
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+The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
+so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
+ -- Bertrand Russell
+%
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
-- Peter Beard
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