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• gedanken /g*-dahn'kn/ adj. Ungrounded; impractical
  ot well-thought-out; untried; untested. `Gedanken' is a German word for `thought'....
• All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth.
  By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth....
• A technique is a trick that works. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
• A physical law must possess mathematical beauty. -- Paul A. M. Dirac
• Cat-o'-nine-tails: Noodle machine accident.
• The things we see more frequently are more freque
  1) because there is some physical reason to favor certain states or 2) because there is some mental reason....
• The first time, it's a KLUDGE! The second, a trick.
  Later, it's a well-established technique! -- Mike Broido, Intermetric...