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Re: Caffeine is bad for you, calc is worse.


From: dan () geer org
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 11:24:20 -0400


Always easy to make fun of academic papers, but here's
a couple of ripostes in return...

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When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in
numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it,
when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is a meagre and
unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have
scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.

                    -- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1883
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Amateurs study cryptography; professionals study economics.

                    -- Allan Schiffman
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Security folks are from Mars.  Business people are from Wheaton.

                    -- Adam Shostack
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This year's WEIS is under Ross Anderson's tutelage.



--dan, on too many deadlines to read more


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