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If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?
If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?
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 great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source read more
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
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.'.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. read more
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the read more
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.
