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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain read more
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of read more
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million read more
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
You know you've achieved perfection in design,
Not when you have nothing more to add,
But when you have read more
You know you've achieved perfection in design,
Not when you have nothing more to add,
But when you have nothing more to take away.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to read more
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
