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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by argd678 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:45PM (#19222096)
Reminds me of this Sir Issac Newton quote:

> Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by idlewords on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:47PM (#19222701)
This is a Howard Newton quote. I think you're confusing it with "F = ma".

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/07/18/tact/

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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by 77pt77 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:33PM (#19222635)
Do you have a source for that?

That does not sound like Newton ar all.

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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by argd678 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:03PM (#19222763)
If you google “Newton” Google attributes it to Issac Newton on the side bar, seems like it must be wrongly attributed unfortunately. Thanks for correction.
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by agumonkey on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:48PM (#19222708)
Maybe mastery doesn't imply usage
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by pmoriarty on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:12PM (#19222541)
Hearing this coming from Newton is surprising, given his infamous feud with Leibniz over which of them invented calculus.
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Re:Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure by Jedd on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:30PM (#19222624)
Not really. People can have ideal ideas that don't match their own lived reality. And the Newton / Hooke feud is probably more interesting and relevant, than the Leibniz one (given that was entirely of Newton's making).
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