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"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."

"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

"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."

"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."

"It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers."

"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."
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"I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'"

"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."

"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."
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