While You Wait quotes

[LordShiva]

I noticed a mistake in one:

It is not that polar co-ordinates are complicated, it is simply
that cartesian co-ordinates are simpler than they have a right to be.
-- Kleppner & Kolenhow, "An Introduction to Mechanics"

It's actually Kleppner & Kolenkow

Memories... I used that book for freshman physics.

[Dis]

people actually read those?

Actually I sometimes do. Some of them are decent, some are lame and I have no idea what the mean.

[Heresson]

Re: While You Wait quotes

Originally posted by LordShiva
I noticed a mistake in one:



It's actually Kleppner & Kolenkow

Memories... I used that book for freshman physics.

You like physics?

[Dauphin]

Physics is the best subject.

[Heresson]

nerds

[DrSpike]

I stopped reading those quotes about 3 days after they came in.

[Heresson]

they suck, mostly

[:) Smiley]

I remember that book too.

Did you ever do the problem about Russian paratroopers being dropped in bales of hay due to parachute shortages during WWII?

[LordShiva]

It was 4 years ago. Sounds familiar, though.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Dis
people actually read those?

90% of the quotes are pointless, 9% of them are too long to be read in time, and the last 1% might be funny

We need a better quotes database

[Dis]

I think all quotes should be quotes by me. That should keep things interesting.

[Will9]

Originally posted by Adagio

We need a better quotes database

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

[Colonâ„¢]

I never get the opportunity to read the quotes, or even to click on pause. That's the misery you get with broadband.

[LordShiva]

Well, you can click "Back" after the post is posted to go back to the quote page and take however long you want to read it.

[Colonâ„¢]

I know, I sometimes to that but then it turns out it wasn't worth the effort.