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Global warming does increase the intensity of droughts and heat waves, and thus the area of forest fires. However, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapour, global warming must also increase the intensity of the other extreme of the hydrologic cycle—meaning heavier rains, more extreme floods, and more intense storms driven by latent heat, including thunderstorms, tornadoes, and tropical storms.

James Hansen

By creating new terminological conflicts, you can encourage serious errors, annoy knowledgeable readers, and isolate your research area from the rest of the community. If you're challenged, claim that your new concept is more important than the old concept, that anyone who wants to use the old concept can say something else, and that staying compatible with ancient terminology will interfere with progress.

djb

As soon as a germ (administrator) moves into a new body (hospital, school, university, law court) it breeds, dividing and subdividing tasks, creating needs that only new administrators can fulfil. It develops or applies a special status-enhancing language (`goals', `bench-marks', `mission statements'). This compensates for the fact that it is in the nature of such professional administrators that they have no particular skill or knowledge of the area in which they work.

Alan Macfarlane

I heard a man who had been in Abu Ghraib prison say: `The Americans brought electricity to my ass before they brought it to my house.'

Eliot Weinberger

The car says, I am the master of my destiny; the train says, we're all in this together. I might sometimes doubt the second, but the daily carnage testifies to the absolute untruth of the first

Don Paterson

I would like to tell you something that you will not believe but which I think it is important that you hear, and that is that almost every IT supplier in the world today is incompetent. I have worked in the IT industry almost all my working life for large and small organisations, and I know what I speak… The underlying engineering disciplines that every mature engineering discipline has learnt it needs to use in order to be able to show that the system it is building has the required properties have not yet been employed in software and systems engineering, and that is at the heart of why these things do not work.

Prof. Martyn Thomas to the Home Affairs Committee

Globalisation does not mean the impotence of the state, but the rejection by the state of its social functions, in favour of repressive ones, and the ending of democratic freedoms.

Boris Kagarlitsky

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Mark Twain

Interpolation is a black art, and interpolation methods should never be trusted. Careful researchers always interpolate several times using different methods, and choose the result they dislike least.

Roger Bivand

Apparently if you are aware that the From: field can be, and often is, forged, you are overqualified to write antivirus software.

jwz

… no amount of cajolery can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Aneurin Bevan

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