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• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
  -- Max Planck...
• At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
  -- Nietzsche...
• Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the draught.
  -- Dwight W. Morrow (1873-1931)...
• The way to get a new theory accepted is to propose it and then wait for all the old physicists to die.
  -- Max Planck...
• cough and die: v. Syn. {barf}. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight.
  The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died....
• cough and die v. Syn. barf. Connotes that the program is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or oversight.
  The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was looking for a printable, so it coughed and died....
• ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage.
  A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial....
• The true value of a civilization is reflected in its artistic creations rather than in its scientific accomplishments.
• How many New Yorkers -- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
  50. 50? Yeah 50; its in the contract....