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• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.
  So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists....
• cargo cult programming n. A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.
  A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare shotgun debugging, voodoo pr The term `cargo cult' is a reference to aboriginal religions that grew up in the South Pacific after World War II....
• The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is thi
  the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988)...
• cargo cult programming: n. A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.
  A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare {shotgun debugging}, {voodoo programming})....
• It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss.
  .. -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988)...
• Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts. -- Richard P. Feynma
• Quote #532 Science is like sex
• If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 10E5, I know he's full of crap.
  -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988) -- "What Do You Care What Other People Think?...
• All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
  -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988)...