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Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.


Seth Hoffman

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ANONYMOUS Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
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SETH SHOSTAK Thanks to the fact that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere, and invoking a bunch of Newtonian phys...
SETH SHOSTAK The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions ...
SETH SHOSTAK I feel like I've been very underrated and very kind of disrespected so far in my career. I just ...
SETH CURRY I still remember my dismay in the summer of 2007 when - for the first time in the history of planet ...
SETH SHOSTAK The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a co...
SETH MEYERS Is E.T. out there? Well, I work at the SETI Institute. That's almost my name. SETI: Search for E...
SETH SHOSTAK According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a sli...
SETH LLOYD The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 perce...
SETH SHOSTAK The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, ...
SETH GODIN I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost...
SETH ROGEN What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thou...
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