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Quotations
There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
-- Kurt Lewin, "Field Theory in Social Science," Harper & Row, 1951 |
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
-- Donald E. Knuth, "Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion" (five-page memo sent to Peter van Emde Boas, Robert Tarjan, and John Hopcroft), March 22, 1977 |
There is no art which one government sooner learns from another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
-- Adam Smith, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" (1776) |
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), "Maxims for Revolutionists" |
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