What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

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.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.

There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." read more

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.