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/ ____/___ _____/ /___ ______ ___
/ /_ / __ \/ ___/ __/ / / / __ \/ _ \
/ __/ / /_/ / / / /_/ /_/ / / / / __/
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If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from?
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the
shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side
with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
-- Brian K. Reid
If you wants to get elected president, you'se got to think up some
memoraboble homily so's school kids can be pestered into memorizin' it,
even if they don't know what it means.
-- Walt Kelly, "The Pogo Party"
Menu, n.:
A list of dishes which the restaurant has just run out of.
This is lemma 1.1. We start a new chapter so the numbers all go back
to one.
-- Prof. Seager, C&O 351
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
Beware of computerized fortune-tellers!
Logic is a little bird, sitting in a tree; that smells *_____awful*.
Monday, 18 May 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
