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April 1, 20051 Comment

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America. — Otto von Bismarck

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March 30, 2005

At this time I do not have a personal relationship with a computer. — Janet Reno

I learned to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one’s trust in a mathematical scheme, even if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics. Now when Heisenberg noticed that, he was really scared. — … Continue reading qotd 2

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March 28, 2005

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. — John Tukey