Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in
the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at
least twice as fast as that.
-- Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-98), English writer,
mathematician
-- Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 2 (1872)
the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at
least twice as fast as that.
-- Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-98), English writer,
mathematician
-- Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 2 (1872)
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