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> References: <7f8a05a80811171609h2f5742cfo2ae003415a99e45f@mail.gmail.com> <20081118121634.S84157@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118154226.GA20147@ourbrains.org> <20081118165011.G84987@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081118155448.GC20147@ourbrains.org> <20081118164947.GF28439@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <d356c5630811180913w385ca549l1c76ed246a5ef33e@mail.gmail.com> <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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