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• A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. -- H. H. Munroe
• A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. -- H.H. Munro, "Saki
• During the invasion of Sicily in World War II, General George ("Blood 'n' Guts") Patton was preparing to take the city of Palermo.
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• Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons.
  -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949 editio...
• Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weight 1 1/2 tons.
  -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949...
• Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
  Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949...