The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come read more

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the read more

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite read more

Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no read more

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.