Quotes
It has taken great minds to discover simple things
The next major thrust in biology
You and I Are Not Much Different from Cans of Soup
Food is a product of economic supply and demand
John C. Malone on Assets in the Entertainment Industry
Books have always been digital, not analog
Books have always been digital, not analog. Even when made of paper & ink, they are sequences of discrete symbols. That is all.
— James Gleick (@JamesGleick) June 7, 2011
You Cannot Learn Too Much Linear Algebra
On Scientifically Not Putting the Cart in Front of the Horse
Quite often in science we get a bit ahead of ourselves and begin theorizing wildly, which can very often be an excellent thought experiment in and of itself. But without some data to give proof to our theorems, we can be easily sidedtracked. Never have I read a statement so poetically phrased to admonish against it as I have recently:
Rod, Can You Tell Our Contestant What She’s Won?
Possibly one of the oddest closing sentences of a technical book–and a very good one at that–I’ve ever read:
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Masara Ibuka on the Purposes of Incorporation of Sony
John McCarthy on Arithmetic
A Cosmologically Centered Definition of Hydrogen
The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
On Telephones and Architecture