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"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
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"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."

"We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."

"Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers."

"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."

"As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers."

"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."
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"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."


"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information."


"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."


"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems."


"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."


"In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks."
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