Clever. I had to read that repeatedly to get it.

Cf: The difference between theory and practice is: "Practice works, in theory."

alpaca128 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I heard it as "in theory, theory and practice are the same"

	▲	Izkata 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've heard that style too, with the addendum "in practice, not".

SlowTao 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have heard the same thing from Grid based electrical engineers. The grids fails in theory but works in practice.

gnerd00 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

"In theory, theory is ninety percent of practice; in practice, theory is ten percent of practice"