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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:52:56 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and hardware??
Message-ID:  <18723.7448.162051.610048@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081118194621.GF4787@kokopelli.hydra>
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Chad Perrin writes:

>  > I read once that:  "The difference between the lab and the real 
>  > world is that, in the lab, there is no difference."  I wish I
>  > had noted the source.
>  
>  The way I'd heard that sentiment was slightly different:
>  
>    "In theory, theory and practice are the same.  In practice, they
>    aren't."
>  
>  . . . or something to that effect.

	"The difference between theory and practice, in theory, is much
	smaller than the difference between theory and practice, in
	practice."


					Robert Huff




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