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28 Jul 2024 10:31:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Conservation of sanity  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 23 Jun 2014 21:06:19
Message: <53a8cf0b$1@news.povray.org>

> According to the first law of thermodynamics, heat is conserved. As
> such, if you put a hot object next to a cold one, the cold one will warm
> up - but the hot one will also cool down.
>
> I posit that sanity obeys a similar conservation principle. When I work
> on a really old piece of code, as my work progresses the code becomes
> more sane - but I become less sane...

Yes, but due to loss, the total sanity of a closed system decreases over 
time.

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