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 |  |  | #10400 |  | Nondeterminism means never having to say you are wrong. 
 |  |  |  | #10401 |  | Nonsense.  Space is blue and birds fly through it. -- Heisenberg
 
 |  |  |  | #10402 |  | Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in
 their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the
 moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter -- for they had a machine, a
 dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect.
 And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it
 was all they had -- first they saved up all their atoms, then they put
 them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit,
 and everything was just fine ...
 -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
 
 |  |  |  | #10403 |  | Nothing is faster than the speed of light ... 
 To prove this to yourself, try opening the refrigerator door before the
 light comes on.
 
 |  |  |  | #10404 |  | Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 |  |  |  | #10405 |  | Nuclear powered vacuuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years. -- Alex Lewyt (President of the Lewyt Corporation,
 manufacturers of vacuum cleaners), quoted in The New York
 Times, June 10, 1955.
 
 |  |  |  | #10406 |  | Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing. 
 |  |  |  | #10407 |  | "Obviously, a major malfunction has occurred." -- Steve Nesbitt, voice of Mission Control, January 28,
 1986, as the shuttle Challenger exploded within view
 of the grandstands.
 
 |  |  |  | #10408 |  | Of course you can't flap your arms and fly to the moon.  After a while you'd run out of air to push against.
 
 |  |  |  | #10409 |  | Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than illumination.
 
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