A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, “I was beaten”; he does not say “My men were beaten.
– Antoine de Saint-ExuperyI was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they’re cramming for their final exam!
– George CarlinChina is doing moon shots. Yes, that’s plural. When I say “moon shots” I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at least four going now: one is building a network of ultramodern airports; another is building a web of high-speed trains connecting major cities; a third is in bioscience [..]; and, finally, Beijing just announced that it was providing $15 billion in seed money for the country’s leading auto and battery companies to create an electric car industry [..] Not to worry. America today also has its own multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing moon shot: fixing Afghanistan.
– Their Moon Shot and Ours - Thomas L. FriedmanThere are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the [USA’s] national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
– Richard FeynmanBrains x Beauty x Availability = Constant. This constant is always zero.
– Van Den Bossche Jochen
About me
I'm a Programmer (erm technically, a Web Developer). This means if there is any task I have to do twice, I write a chunk of code that does it for me. I love science, technology & gadgets. And oh yes, an active gamer.
