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@@ -16253,3 +16253,7 @@ I never saw a Purple Cow; I'm sorry, now, I wrote it!
I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow,
But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!
I'd rather see than be one. -- Gelett Burgess
+%
+Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we
+can perform without thinking about them.
+ -- Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911)