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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 087b8a5 | My dear Tristan, to be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus. | artist switzerland war | Tom Stoppard | |
| 7a2f97a | So it is with us all, we're not so one-or-the-other. The one who puts on the clothes in the morning is the working majority, but at night-perhaps in the moment before unconsciousness- we meet our sleeper- the priest is visited by the doubter, the Marxist sees the civilizing force of the bourgeoisie, the captain of the industry admits the justice of common ownership. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 4663484 | Do not despair--many are happy much of the time; more eat than starve, more are healthy than sick, more curable than dying; not so many dying as dead; and one of the thieves was saved. Hell's bells and all's well--half the world is at peace with itself, and so is the other half; vast areas are unpolluted; millions of children grow up without suffering deprivation, and millions, while deprived, grow up without suffering cruelties, and millio.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| f7415db | Sometimes I dream of revolution, a bloody coup d'etat by the second rank--troupes of actors slaughtered by their understudies, magicians sawn in half by indefatigably smiling glamour girls, cricket teams wiped out by marauding bands of twelfth men--I dream of champions chopped down by rabbit-punching sparring partners while eternal bridesmaids turn and rape the bridegrooms over the sausage rolls and parliamentary private secretaries plant b.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 9dfbcca | Nunca se le ocurrio pensar que uno quiere a la gente por sus defectos? | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 4a27b25 | Todo lo que he escrito sobre mi destino --con esperanzas o con temor, en broma o en serio-- me mortifica. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 1eab329 | Considero que este pensamiento es un vicio: lo escribo para fijarle limites, para ver que no tiene encanto, para dejarlo. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 5eaf58b | Siempre quise a Paulina. En uno de mis primeros recuerdos, Paulina y yo estamos ocultos en una oscura glorieta de laureles, en un jardin con dos leones de piedra. Paulina me dijo: Me gusta el azul, me gustan las uvas, me gusta el hielo, me gustan las rosas, me gustan los caballos blancos. Yo comprendi que mi felicidad habia empezado, porque en esas preferencias podia identificarme con Paulina. Nos parecimos tan milagrosamente que en un libr.. | espiritualidad literatura | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| 562dfa9 | jimi & and me | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| b5b4580 | Creyo por primera vez entender por que se decia que la vida es sueno: si uno vive bastante, los hechos de su vida, como los de un sueno, su vuelven incomunicables porque a nadie interesan. | old-age | Adolfo Bioy Casares | |
| 32642f4 | Al hombre que, basandose en este informe, invente una maquina capaz de reunir las presencias disgregadas, hare una suplica: Busquenos a Faustine y a mi, hagame entrar en el cielo de la conciencia de Faustine. Sera un acto piadoso. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 3d3eec6 | A vida sera, portanto, um deposito da morte. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 56b53cf | O caminho e este: viver, ser o mais feliz mortal. Mas a condicao da minha felicidade, como tudo que e humano, e instavel. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| f257a07 | like Turing and the cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park, the Navajo were ignored for decades. Eventually, in 1968, the Navajo code was declassified, and the following year the code talkers held their first reunion. | Simon Singh | ||
| 950d8e6 | El amor es la unica piedra que siempre tropieza con el mismo hombre | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 24bbad4 | One quart milk, one quart cream, one dozen eggs, 12 tablespoons sugar, one pint brandy, half-pint rye whiskey, quarter-pint rum, quarter-pint sherry. Mix. Store by cool window or in cellar. | Kristiana Gregory | ||
| ec2a53e | Ron Rivest, one of the inventors of RSA, thinks that restricting cryptography would be foolhardy: It is poor policy to clamp down indiscriminately on a technology just because some criminals might be able to use it to their advantage. For example, any U.S. citizen can freely buy a pair of gloves, even though a burglar might use them to ransack a house without leaving fingerprints. Cryptography is a data-protection technology, just as gloves.. | Simon Singh | ||
| e750728 | Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple. | Simon Singh | ||
| e934ed2 | The NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world. | Simon Singh | ||
| 881802e | if a message protected by quantum cryptography were ever to be deciphered, it would mean that quantum theory is flawed, | Simon Singh | ||
| 66d7676 | The nineteenth-century mathematician Leopold Kronecker said, "God made the integers; all the rest is the work of man." | Simon Singh | ||
| 65eab2d | Enigma was considered invulnerable, until the Poles revealed its weaknesses. | Simon Singh | ||
| 8a0dae3 | This apparently innocuous observation would lead to the first great breakthrough in cryptanalysis. | Simon Singh | ||
| 5f76dcd | Florence) Nightingale's passion for statistics enabled her to persuade the government of the importance of a whole series of health reforms. for example, many people had argued that training nurses was a waste of time, because patients cared for by trained nurses actually had a higher mortality rate than those treated by untrained staff. Nightingale, however, pointed out that this was only because more serious cases were being sent to those.. | nursing science | Simon Singh | |
| e739473 | Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almost other-worldly. | Simon Singh | ||
| a3cc3b8 | Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean. G.H. Hardy 23 | Simon Singh | ||
| 777d876 | Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. | Simon Singh | ||
| 4516b07 | The Last Theorem is at the heart of an intriguing saga of courage, skulduggery, cunning, and tragedy, involving all the greatest heroes of mathematics. | Simon Singh | ||
| 606252a | The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite. | infinity intellect math question world | Simon Singh | |
| 6464509 | Young love is common, but that doesn't mean it's not precious. | love precious wisdom young-love | Eoin Colfer | |
| 4bf29f2 | among guilt-ridden criminals, first diagnosed | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 7787806 | Mona was half ninja, half gunslinger, popping off charge after charge into the blue creatures. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| b0b25ca | world was dripping down his eyeballs like wet oil paint down a canvas. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 4ce65b3 | In a weak moment I have written a book... | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 00f94ec | Cosmo was halfway through a particularly nasty dream involving two Parasites, Ziplock, and a hair dryer, | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 95f4650 | Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| ffb4d70 | Cosmo sank into a near trancelike state. The events of the past few days bounced around his head like blobs of oil in a lava lamp. Who was he now? Cosmo Hill fugitive no-sponsor, or Cosmo Hill Supernaturalist? Who was Cosmo Hill anyhow? A product of Clarissa Frayne, with no personality to speak of. Fourteen years old and he had never kissed a girl. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 3483314 | Wir machen dem Zirkus ein Ende." "Verstehe. Und das da sind die Clowns?" Foaly steckte seinen Kopf durch die Tur. "Entschuldigen Sie, wenn ich Ihre kunstvolle Zirkusmetapher unterbreche, aber was zum Teufel ist das?" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 27adecc | Any of these vultures smell weakness, and they'll mess you up faster than sugar in a gas tank. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 5f1e1bb | I am surprised. 'A disk? A bloody disk. What do I look like to you? Jason goddamn Bourne? | jason-bourne | Eoin Colfer | |
| 72b3b49 | This is working out pretty well, all things considered. My giddy side wants to giggle, but I choke it down. Later for the girlishness. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 84002f5 | Deacon laughs. 'People like you and me, Dan, trouble sniffs us out. Maybe you can hide out for a while, maybe even a few years, but eventually someone needs to be saved or someone needs to be killed. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| a25b2f3 | I must capture the flag,' he breathed. 'That's what a pirate captain is supposed to do. Go to the roof, so I can capture the flag and gloat.' 'Capture the flag and goat?' 'Gloat.' Isabella stood hands on hips. 'It's pronounced goooaaat, idiot. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| af44801 | Man is the biggest threat to Earth. We gut the planet of its fossil fuels then turn those same fuels against the planet through global warming... The world's glaciers are losing as much as six feet of ice cover per annum, that's half a million square miles in the Arctic Ocean alone in the past thirty years. | Eoin Colfer |