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There Is No Way To Find The Best Design Except To Try Out As Many Designs As Possible And Discard The Failures.
-Freeman Dyson
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There Is No Way To Find The
Freeman Dyson
There Is No Way To Find The Best Design Except To Try Out As Many Designs As Possible And Discard The Failures.
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