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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates read more
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If read more
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.
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.
I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told read more
I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.
