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| | #4541 | | Research, n.:
Consider Columbus:
He didn't know where he was going.
When he got there he didn't know where he was.
When he got back he didn't know where he had been.
And he did it all on someone else's money.
| | | #4542 | | Responsibility:
Everyone says that having power is a great responsibility. This is
a lot of bunk. Responsibility is when someone can blame you if something
goes wrong. When you have power you are surrounded by people whose job it
is to take the blame for your mistakes. If they're smart, that is.
-- Cerebus, "On Governing"
| | | #4543 | | Revolution, n.:
A form of government abroad.
| | | #4544 | | Revolution, n.:
In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
-- Ambrose Bierce
| | | #4545 | | revolutionary, adj.:
Repackaged.
| | | #4546 | | Rhode's Law:
When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening, circumstance,
or result can in no way be directly, indirectly, empirically, or
circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, induced, deducted,
estimated, or scientifically guessed, it will always for the purpose
of convenience, expediency, political advantage, material gain, or
personal comfort, or any combination of the above, or none of the
above, be unilaterally and unequivocally assumed, proclaimed, and
adhered to as absolute truth to be undeniably, universally, immutably,
and infinitely so, until such time as it becomes advantageous to
assume otherwise, maybe.
| | | #4547 | | Ritchie's Rule:
(1) Everything has some value -- if you use the right currency.
(2) Paint splashes last longer than the paint job.
(3) Search and ye shall find -- but make sure it was lost.
| | | #4548 | | Robot, n.:
University administrator.
| | | #4549 | | Robustness, adj.:
Never having to say you're sorry.
| | | #4550 | | Rocky's Lemma of Innovation Prevention:
Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will
reject the proposal.
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