Sunday, April 7, 2013
If the human brain operates equivalently to a machine, then according to the Church-Turing thesis, the human brain would be no more powerful than a Turing machine. Hence, humans would be incapable of solving problems like the Halting problem.
— Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne, Introduction to Programming in Java
Saturday, April 6, 2013
A man needs something to tell him, from time to time, that he is still himself.
— Konrad Lorenz, King Solomon’s Ring
Friday, April 5, 2013
Step into the elevator press three.
— Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Jimmy lovine - feat. Ab-Soul”
Thursday, April 4, 2013
How does one give implicit worth to a product of time / matter / chance?
— Ravi Zacharias
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Best play ever man.
— Mr. Little Jeans, Rushmore
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Without producing anything more offensive than apocalyptic wallpaper.
— Dmitri Tymoczko
Monday, April 1, 2013
However, once these thoughts had started up in the vacuum they wouldn’t stop going round and round in my head, again and again, in ever-changing combinations, and they went on until I fell asleep.
— Stefan Zweig, Chess
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Something to do with the essentials… that someone really feels spoken to. That someone who comes here takes away something that he or she can ponder over, and maybe reconsider.
— Truus Schröder in Alice T. Friedman, “Family Matters: The Schröder House, by Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schröder,” Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Maybe that’s not a technical term, but what ever it is, it is beautiful when you recognize it.
— Maddie Wilson, “I nurse, you nurse, we nurse,” The Daily Pennsylvanian
Friday, March 29, 2013
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7,
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
The existing information and what you self-discover may at first seem skimpy and difficult to connect to other bodies of knowledge. Well, if that’s the case, good.
— E. O. Wilson, “Advice to young scientists,” TED Talk
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
A get on and get on with it attitude of the world.
— Alan Ryan
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
They don’t trust themselves.
— Nick
Monday, March 25, 2013
Too much time spent on nothing.
— First Aid Kit, “When I Grow Up”
Sunday, March 24, 2013
National Geographic has this theory that the last century, discovery was basically finding things, and in this century, discover is basically making things.
— Stewart Brand, “The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?,” TED Talk
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Her hopes and visions were so intricate that she no longer saw the white pillows on which her gaze was fixed or remembered that she was waiting for anything.
— James Joyce, “The Boarding House”
Friday, March 22, 2013
Mies van der Rohe, confident of being in possession of an objective truth, relegated all high-flown utopias to the realm of illusion.
— Fritz Neumeyer, Nexus of the Modern: The New Architecture in Berlin
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Evidence of anomalous features in the CMB is more serious than previously thought, suggesting that something fundamental may be missing from the standard framework.
— Jan Tauber, Planck Project Scientist at ESA, “Simple But Challenging: The Universe According to Planck”
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
It’s the difference in people that makes the world go round.
— Ru
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The form of the type, as important as it was in production, had a very limited value on the market. As a market sign, it was not economically visible, not on its own, not without a legal trademark.
— Frederic Schwartz, “Commodity Signs: Peter Behrens, the AEG, and the Trademark”
