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• Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
  -- John Archibald Wheeler (1911- ) -- American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323...
• Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once.
  Lately it doesn't seem to be working....
• Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Anon.
• Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
• Time is just nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
• Time was invented so that you don't have to do everything all at once.
  Space was invented so you don't have to do everything all in the same place....
• idempotent adj. [from mathematical techspeak] Acting as if used only once, even if used multiple times.
  This term is often used with respect to C header files, which contain common definitions and declarations to be included by several source files....
• idempotent: [from mathematical techspeak] adj. Acting as if used only once, even if used multiple times.
  This term is often used with respect to {C} header files, which contain common definitions and declarations to be included by several source files....
• Quote #204 From a long view of the history of mankind - seen from
  ay, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics....