Quotes for possible use in thesis

[Track down citations for these, so I have any hope of using them!]

"Sometimes, if you pay real close attention to the pebbles you find
out about the ocean."
- "Lords and Ladies", by Terry Pratchett  [frontpiece quote?]

"Banks and banks of humming machinery.  I've never seen so many
knobs!"
- "Bang On", by Propellerheads [Review of Previous Measurements]

"Arrrrgh!"
- Charlie Brown, by Charles Schultz [systematics?]

"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been
much of a day."
- J. A. Wheeler  [conclusion?]

"...thesis abstracts are, with a very few exceptions, the least
credible and most horrifying productions of imaginative literature."
- Robertson Davies, "Revelation from a smoky fire"

"Results!  Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several
thousand things that won't work."
- Thomas A. Edison

"To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be
a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad."
- Thomas Hobbes

"It is not necessary to assume the sensory information corresponds to
an objective reality only that the studying of it is interesting or
useful."
- Byron K. Jennings, "On the Nature of Science" [Theory]

"I cannot stress enough that nearly without exception one cannot
randomly combine a collection of circuitry and power supplies into an
object and 'accidentally discover' that it is a fully functioning
death ray (I speak here from bitter experience)."
- James Kakalios, "The Physics of Superheroes" [TWIST hardware?]

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead
channel."
- William Gibson, "Neuromancer"

"Wider expanses and greater depths are now exposed to the searching
eye of knowledge, regions of which we had not even a presentiment. It
has brought us much nearer to grasping the plan that underlies all
physical happening."
- H. Weyl, "Space, Time, Matter"

"In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend
it's not there if you want to keep writing good code."
- Karl Lehenbauer [software]

"I can understand the attraction of studying kinematic equations along
side an attractive female police officer, but... why all the lawn
equipment?"
- Larry Fleinhardt, "Numb3rs"