HOW TO PROVE IT, PART 1 proof by example: The author gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas of the general proof. proof by intimidation: 'Trivial'. proof by vigorous handwaving: Works well in a classroom or seminar setting.
[singing] Hoein' every hayfield and puttin' them in bales Pickin' all the peapods and puttin' them in pails It's time to reap the harvest; we're goin' as fast as we can Tryin' to get the crops in before the farmer that owns this place comes out and starts shootin' at us.
Partition: A wall you have to build around a noisy dot matrix printer that makes only slightly less noise than a tree chipper.
A man sees a boat that is full of people. And yet there isn’t a single person on the boat. How is this possible? Everyone on the boat is married, so there isn’t one single person on the boat. The man wonders if it’s legal for a transportation system to discriminate against unmarried people. It doesn’t seem legal, but maybe maritime laws are different? Perhaps if things had ended differently with Heather, the man would be on the boat, too. He laughs sadly to himself. He was always single, even when he was with Heather. Love is an illusion. There are no purely unselfish actions. Heather and Dale deserve each other. The man blows his nose. He didn’t even realize he’d been crying. ~ Ethan Kuperberg
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. -- Emma Goldman
Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator. (By jdege@winternet.com, Jeff Dege)
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
Nanosecond: The time it takes after your warranty expires for your hard disk to start making a sound like a monkey wrench in a blender.
Don't scrap everything! See what you can salvage.
A couple of young fellers were fishing at their special pond off the beaten track when out of the bushes jumped the Game Warden. Immediately, one of the boys threw his rod down and started running through the woods like the proverbial bat out of hell, and hot on his heels ran the Game Warden. After about a half mile the fella stopped and stooped over with his hands on his thighs, whooping and heaving to catch his breath as the Game Warden finally caught up to him. "Let's see yer fishin' license, boy," the Warden gasped. The man pulled out his wallet and gave the Game Warden a valid fishing license. "Well, son", snarled the Game Warden, "You must be about as dumb as a box of rocks! You didn't have to run if you have a license!" "Yes, sir," replied his victim, "but, well, see, my friend back there, he don't have one!"
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House. ~ Adlai Stevenson
Yo momma is so ugly that she can look up a camel's butt and scare the hump off of it.
To learn theory by experimenting and doing. To learn belonging by participating and self-rule. Permissiveness in all animal behavior and interpersonal expression. Emphasis on individual differences. Unblocking and training feeling by plastic arts, eurythmics and dramatics. Tolerance of races, classes, and cultures. Group therapy as a means of solidarity, in the staff meeting and community meeting. Taking youth seriously as an age in itself. Community of youth and adults, minimizing 'authority.' Educational use of the actual physical plant (buildings and farms) and the culture of the school community. Emphasis in the curriculum on real problems and wider society, its geography and history, with actual participation in the neighboring community (village or city). Trying for functional interrelation of activities. -- Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd
Hay una categora de gentes que, si no cree, debe menos aparentar que cree. Son todos los atormentadores, todos los opresores y todos los explotadores de la humanidad. Sacerdotes, monarcas, hombres de Estado, hombres de guerra, financistas pblicos y privados, funcionarios de todas las especies, policas, carceleros y verdugos, monopolizadores, capitalistas, empresarios y propietarios, abogados, economistas, polticos de todos los colores, hasta el ltimo comerciante, todos repetirn al unsono estas palabras de Voltaire: "Si Dios no existiese habra que inventario." Porque, comprenderis, es precisa una religin para el pueblo. Es la vlvula de seguridad. Existe, en fin, una categora bastante numerosa de almas honestas, pero dbiles, que, demasiado inteligentes para tomar en serio los dogmas cristianos, los rechazan en detalle, pero no tienen ni el valor, ni la fuerza, ni la resolucin necesarios para rechazarlos totalmente. Dejan a vuestra crtica todos los absurdos particulares de la religin, se burlan de todos los milagros, pero se aferran con desesperacin al absurdo principal, fuente de todos los dems, al milagro que explica y legitima todos los otros milagros: a la existencia de Dios. Su Dios no es el ser vigoroso y potente, el Dios brutalmente positivo de la teologa. Es un ser nebuloso, difano, ilusorio, de tal modo ilusorio que cuando se cree palparle se transforma en Nada; es un milagro, un ignis fatuus que ni calienta ni ilumina. Y, sin embargo, sostienen y creen que si desapareciese, desaparecera todo con l. Son almas inciertas, enfermizas, desorientadas en la civilizacin actual, que no pertenecen ni al presente ni al porvenir, plidos fantasmas eternamente suspendidos entre el cielo y la tierra, y que ocupan entre la poltica burguesa y el socialismo del proletariado absolutamente la misma posicin. No se sienten con fuerza ni para pensar hasta el fin, ni para querer, ni para resolver, y pierden su tiempo y su labor esforzndose siempre por conciliar lo inconciliable. En la vida pblica se llaman socialistas burgueses. Ninguna discusin con ellos ni contra ellos es posible. Estn demasiado enfermos. Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, God and the State
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. -- Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"
... we must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books ascribed to Mark, and John; and is differently related in Matthew and Luke. The former says the angel, appeared to Joseph; the latter says, it was to Mary; but either Joseph or Mary was the worst evidence that could have been thought of; for it was others that should have testified for them, and not they for themselves. Were any girl that is now with child to say, and even to swear it, that she was gotten with child by a ghost, and that an angel told her so, would she be believed? Certainly she would not. Why then are we to believe the same thing of another girl whom we never saw, told by nobody knows who, nor when, nor where? How strange and inconsistent is it, that the same circumstance that would weaken the belief even of a probable story, should be given as a motive for believing this one, that has upon the face of it every token of absolute impossibility and imposture. -- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Fiery energy lanced out, but the beams struck an intangible wall between the Gubru and the rapidly turning Earth ship. "Water!" it shrieked as it read the spectral report. "A barrier of water vapor! A civilized race could not have found such a trick in the Library! A civilized race could not have stooped so low! A civilized race would not have..." It screamed as the Gubru ship hit a cloud of drifting snowflakes. - Startide Rising, by David Brin
"One head cannot contain all Wisdom." The Olduvai Cycle Systems University Archives, CY 8550
The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.