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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

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“Do you think we do not understand that your politics are the externalisation of a search for dimensions and responses not supplied to you when you most needed them? We're your friends, Charlie.”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl

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“It would be agreeable if things in this world always finished with all the ends neatly tied up. This is very seldom the case. People go on, to live and die in their own appointed time and place.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

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“It’s like interviewing a new cleaner. Do you want someone who can give you the history of cleaning and the theory of cleaning, or do you want someone who’ll just get down and clean your fucking house? They chose you because they think you’ll clean their fucking house.”
― Robert Harris, The Ghost

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“One hour projects take one hour to complete. Four hour projects take a day. One day projects take a week. One week projects take a couple of months. And, six month or longer projects tend to never complete.”
― Ken Williams, Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings: The rise and fall of Sierra On-Line

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“Това е единственото в Европа място, където е приета обратна сигнална система на жестовете: въртенето на глава значи «да», а кимането — «не». Заради това в конфузни ситуации често попадат не само поведенските софтове, но и хората от цивилизования свят.
Още едно характерно отклонение, и пак единствено в Европа: в тамошния език думата «дявол» има отчетливо положително значение, макар и не без оттенъци. Дявол (там се произнася като «гявол») — значи човек хитър, лукав, но знаещ и умеещ, човек, с когото може да се върши работа, макар че трябва да внимаваш да не те «изпързаля».
Езикът там има една уникална граматична форма — двойно положително отрицание. В английския двойното отрицание е потвърждение. В туземския, обратно, двойното потвърждение е отрицание: «да-да» значи най-твърдо «не»”
― Иван Попов, Хакери на човешките души

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