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Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy read more
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating read more
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
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.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something read more
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or read more
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other read more
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
