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There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.


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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.



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Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.



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Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.



There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.



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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.



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With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.



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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.



There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.





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