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Experimenting With Drugs" by Ike N. Fly -- Booktip of the month
Experiments are often tricky- There's no exception to this rule, What CAN have made that rat a sticky, slimy, rather smelly puddle?
Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail in the same way. -- Finagle's Fifth Rule
Experiment with new ways to visit the toilet. Whatever you're doing now, it's not going to work.
-- Forty-two things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid....
Expert (ecks-purt) from the Greek; `X' meaning unknown, and `spurt', meaning a drip under pressure.
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields.
But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so....
Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.
Expert, n.: Someone who comes from out of town and shows slides.
Experts do not like surprises. It makes them look bad at the home office. -- Vic Gold
Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical.
(Examples: Japanese on warplanes, Russians on the bomb, I...

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