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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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. -Paul Dirac.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and read more
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.
Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million read more
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If read more
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.
