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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five millio
  ine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all....
• An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
  -- Parkinson's Law of 1000...
• One Galileo in two thousand years is enough. -- Pope Pius XII
• A kibble is one thousand nibbles.
• Any ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforth have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
  -- Augustine Birrell...
• A thousand lips, a thousand tongues, a thousand throats, a thousand lungs.
  .. a thousand ways to make it true, I want to do terrible things to you......
• I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets.
  Build a ring 93 million miles in radius -- one Earth orbit -- around the sun....
• Parkinson's Fourth Law The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
• The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
  -- Parkinson's Fourth Law...