It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago.
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
-- H. L. Mencken
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
-- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) {from Bartlett's Quotations, as found here.}
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
-- Augustus De Morgan: A Budget of Paradoxes, p. 377. {as found here.}
Big whorls have little whorls
That feed on their velocity,
And little whorls have lesser whorls
And so on to viscosity.
-- Lewis F. Richardson
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Last updated Sunday, 09 March 2003 14:00:43 -0500