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- I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have… — Richard Dawkins
- If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into… — Unknown Author
- Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a… — Samuel Johnson
- [The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to… — M. King Hubbert
- These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped… — Ronald Reagan
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. — Unknown Author
- Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half… — Philip Greenspun
- The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty… — Charles Macklin
- Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." — Unknown Author
- Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."… — John Arbuthnot
- You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right… — Jonathan Haidt
- So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open… — Evan Parker