Who said?
- From: "shevek4@xxxxxxxxx" <shevek4@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 27 Oct 2006 23:23:04 -0700
Today's "Who Said" forbids the use of databases outside your house.
Honor system of course.
The quote:
"I am standing on the threshold about to enter a room. It is a
complicated business. In the first place I must shove against an
atmosphere pressing with a force of fourteen pounds on every square
inch of my body. I must make sure of landing on a plank travelling at
twenty miles a second round the sun - a fraction of a second too early
or too late, the plank would be miles away. I must do this whilst
hanging from a round planet head outward into space, and with a wind of
aether blowing at no one knows how many miles a second through every
interstice of my body. The plank has no solidity of substance. To step
on it is like stepping on a swarm of flies. Shall I not slip through?
No, if I make the venture one of the flies hits me and gives a boost up
again; I fall again and am knocked upwards by another fly; and so on. I
may hope that the net result will be that I remain about steady; but if
unfortunately I should slip through the floor or be boosted too
violently up to the ceiling, the occurrence would be, not a violation
of the laws of Nature, but a rare coincidence...
Verily, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle
than for a scientific man to pass through a door. And whether the door
be barn door or church door it might be wiser that he should consent to
be an ordinary man and walk in rather than wait till all the
difficulties involved in a really scientific ingress are resolved. "
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