On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:54:19 -0500, Kim Goldenberg wrote:
> > Chase, John wrote:
> >
> >> "You can't win. You can't break even. You can't even quit the game."
> >
> > Isaac Newton
> >
> Theodore Sturgeon - SF writer from the 30s(?)-50s. It's one of
> Sturgeon's Laws.
>
Origin highly uncertain. Also attributed to C. P. Snow (1905-1980) in:
Linkname: Thermodynamics - Wikiquote
URL:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Transwiki:Quotes_%26_humor_%28thermodynamics%29
... and numerous others. But I'll doubt Newton; more likely no earlier than
Maxwell.
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