Quotes from the World for Thursday 02/07/MMXIII

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. A student in Lights, Works, vol. 7, p. 138, “Nauka” (1976).