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Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong.
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. -- Ogden Nash
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. -- James Thurbe
Promise her anything, but give her Exxon unleaded.
Promising costs nothing, it's the delivering that kills you.
PROMOTION FROM WITHIN: A system of moving incompetents up to the policy-making level where they can't foul up operations.
Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword.
Proof techniques #1: Proof by Induction. This technique is used on equations with 'n' in them.
Induction techniques are very popular, even the military use them....
Proof techniques #2: Proof by Oddity. SAMPLE: To prove that horses have an infinite number of legs.
[1] Horses have an even number of legs. [2] They have two legs in back and fore legs in front....
Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.
-- Darrell Huff...

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