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Quote by Dave Parnas
Whenever anyone says, theoretically, they really mean, not really.

Whenever anyone says, theoretically, they really mean, not really. – Dave Parnas

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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. – Dave Parnas

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Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. – Joseph Rotblat

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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. – Robert Quillen

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I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. – Jean M. Auel

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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. – G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955

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