“An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.”
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“A physicist must be able to saw with a file and to file with a saw.”
advising Heinrich Kayser to favor experimental physics above mathematical training, as quoted in the biographical memoir of Heinrich Kayser. [Biographical memoirs of fellows of the Royal Society, Royal Society, 1955, 135]
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