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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.
If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color read more
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal read more
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.
Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the read more
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
