X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=4b9871137f019d912a5b6a8082685f970132777b;hb=37003fc768594b97e60428046a484d6388a17f48;hp=c804e4f1ff8495e2afbbfbf9ac518ae4f8b7e0c3;hpb=656831b5870b2abffb1c8e06ae6079a2516e95bc;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index c804e4f..4b98711 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -789,3 +789,18 @@ All my dreams came true. I just didn't think them through. -- a softer world #388 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=388 +% +You think to yourself, hey, it's a test tube, for God's sake. Pretty +soon, though, the rush from a test tube isn't enough. You want to +experiment more and more. Then before you know it, you're laying in +the corner of a lab somewhere with a soxilette apparatus in one hand, +a three neck flask in the other, strung out and begging for grant +money. + -- Tim Mitchell, 1994 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize Speech +% +The smallest quantity of bread that can be sliced and toasted has yet +to be experimentally determined. In the quantum limit we must +necessarily encounter fundamental toast particles which the author +will unflinchingly designate here as "croutons". + -- Cser, Jim. Nanotechnology and the Physical Limits of Toastability. + AIR 1:3, June, 1995.