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Wikipedia works in practice, but not in theory.
by yreg 3y ago
Wikipedia works in practice, but not in theory.
- api 3y agoThanks for that phrase. I love it.
- yreg 3y agoI've got it from @libraryofbabel here on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25710994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25710994
- karaterobot 3y agoThere's even a quote investigator entry for this phrase, which dates to at least 1911, though I'd assume it's been around almost as long as the original idiom it's an inversion of. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/30/practice/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/30/practice/
- pmcjones 3y agoThat’s what David Boggs said about Ethernet at an early (contentious) standards meeting.