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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0ba381e | They called the Navajo language a "weird succession of guttural, nasal, tongue-twisting sounds ... we couldn't even transcribe it, much less crack it." | Simon Singh | ||
| 4d3fcf8 | A Navajo message could never be faked and could always be trusted. | Simon Singh | ||
| ae11359 | The only people who are in a position to point out my errors are also those who are not at liberty to reveal them. | Simon Singh | ||
| 890c259 | An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities - a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. Howard W. Eves | Simon Singh | ||
| 8394092 | the greatest tribute to the work of the Navajo is the simple fact that their code is one of very few throughout history that was never broken. | Simon Singh | ||
| eb074a8 | Spravne pouziti kvalitni sifry je velkou pomoci pro obe komunikujici strany, avsak nekorektni zachazeni se slabou sifrou muze vyvolat velmi falesny pocit bezpeci. | Simon Singh | ||
| bc24e9b | rika se, ze zkratka NSA ve skutecnosti znamena ,,Never Say Anything | Simon Singh | ||
| 800fe53 | Nez odevzdam tyto dokumenty do rukou verejnosti, chci rici par slov tem, jejichz zajem vzbudi, a udelit malou radu, ziskanou horkou zkusenosti. Zni takto: venujte hledani jen tolik casu, kolik muzete vysetrit vedle svych beznych povinnosti. A pokud nemate zadny volny cas, nechte celou vec byt. ... Znovu opakuji: nikdy neobetujte sve vlastni zajmy a zajmy sve rodiny veci, jez se muze ukazat jako iluze. Avsak, jak jsem jiz rekl, kdyz mate svo.. | Simon Singh | ||
| a074d04 | The problem looks so straightforward because it is based on the one piece of mathematics that everyone can remember - Pythagoras' theorem: In a right-angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. | Simon Singh | ||
| c035a4f | Lide zapojeni do debaty o sifrovani jsou vesmes inteligentni, cestni a jsou pro depozici klicu, ale nikdy nemaji vice nez dve tyto vlastnosti najednou. | Simon Singh | ||
| 020f5ee | It is the same with life. Some are influenced by the love of wealth while others are blindly led on by the mad fever for power and domination, but the finest type of man gives himself up to discovering the meaning and purpose of life itself. He seeks to uncover the secrets of nature. This is the man I call a philosopher for although no man is completely wise in all respects, he can love wisdom as the key to nature's secrets. | Simon Singh | ||
| 4d73cd3 | The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G.H. Hardy | Simon Singh | ||
| 3e2f861 | The construction of mathematical logic had become the arbiter of truth. This was the Pythagoreans' greatest contribution to civilisation - a way of achieving truth which is beyond the fallibility of human judgement. | Simon Singh | ||
| de7a91f | prove that xn + yn = zn has no whole number solutions for n greater than 2. | Simon Singh | ||
| b0c7bab | A problem worthy of attack Proves its worth by fighting back. Piet Hein | Simon Singh | ||
| eb2684a | Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. | Simon Singh | ||
| f294933 | Scientific proof is inevitably fickle and shoddy. On the other hand mathematical proof is absolute and devoid of doubt. | Simon Singh | ||
| 749ec1c | Figure 6 The science of secret writing and its main branches. | Simon Singh | ||
| 699b029 | Number theorists consider prime numbers to be the most important numbers of all because they are the atoms of mathematics. Prime numbers are the numerical building blocks because all other numbers can be created by multiplying combinations of the prime numbers. | Simon Singh | ||
| 174e2be | On a fatal day, in the holy season of Lent, Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church, and inhumanely butchered by the hands of Peter the Reader and a troop of savage and merciless fanatics; her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster-shells, and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames. | Simon Singh | ||
| a7079ba | Pythagoras, the teacher, paid his student three oboli for each lesson he attended | Simon Singh | ||
| 9e777c3 | Each member of the school was forced to swear an oath never to reveal to the outside world any of their mathematical discoveries. | Simon Singh | ||
| cd9117e | Even after Pythagoras's death a member of the Brotherhood was drowned for breaking his oath--he publicly announced the discovery of a new regular solid, the dodecahedron, constructed from twelve regular pentagons. | Simon Singh | ||
| 14816b6 | The Brotherhood was effectively a religious community, and one of the idols they worshiped was Number. | Simon Singh | ||
| 7edfe57 | although there are plenty of numbers whose divisors add up to one less than the number itself, that is to say only slightly defective, there appear to be no numbers that are slightly excessive. | Simon Singh | ||
| fd3d8af | Euclid discovered that perfect numbers are always the multiple of two numbers, one of which is a power of 2 and the other being the next power of 2 minus 1. | Simon Singh | ||
| 1f44568 | Friends are the siblings God never gave us" (Mencius)" | L.J. Shen | ||
| 8721a0c | La verdad son las tonterias que dice la gente cuando se cree que sabe algo | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| bdb729a | M...maybe,' I stutter. 'Whatever the reason, this woman has problems. We need to be compassionate, show understanding.' 'Or slice her head off. I have plastic bags.' Sure. We could toss her in the car beside her partner, then drive to the mall where I dumped Macey and line up all three bodies together in the Lexus. Hell, why not steal Connie's corpse from the morgue to complete the set? | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 26b6784 | Now, Master Fowl, let's talk, shall we? | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 9aebd9d | Saints are not allowed to lie, not even to demons. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 21ade40 | Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down? | devil down heaven hell up | Eoin Colfer | |
| a6d4174 | Today he became a killer, or else a corpse. | death killer murder | Eoin Colfer | |
| 11f06e1 | hardur madur. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| e5d6889 | Toadstool mandarins are a form of toxic jellyfish whose tentacles are loaded with entheogenic venom. The effects of a mandarin sting are threefold. The first is a sharp stinging sensation; the second a nasty red welt, which may fester if not treated with a salve of toadstool mandarin doodoo. And the third is a bold of self-awareness, thanks to the entheogens in the venom. Having been stung, a victim's typical reaction will be something like.. | self-awareness | Eoin Colfer | |
| 9d44d0a | The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish. | time-travel | Eoin Colfer | |
| 9249ac2 | Great, thought Holly. No matter what dimension you're in, there's a bigheaded male trying to take over the world. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 5ef603e | ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention Deficit Hyperflatulence Disorder (not to mention) A Bit Thick. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 019d03f | King Nicholas had explained the lense box to | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 26f257e | Now, Benny was no eejit. He wasn't expecting the Tunisian nationals to be Irish. What he did expect was darkish people with Irishy personalities. That was not what he got. The Tunisians weren't interested in conforming to Benny's preconceptions. They stubbornly insisted on being themselves. | race-relations | Eoin Colfer | |
| 91139bc | Ik heb het nog het best doorstaan, zou ze vermoedelijk ook niet bij de eerste de beste gelegenheid zeggen. Ik had alleen een geperforeerde long en een gebroken sleutelbeen. Je had moeten zien hoe de anderen eraan toe waren. - Holly | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 739044d | Volg de bollen. - Turf | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 50718ae | Als je dan nu misschien die baard wilt loslaten, want ik heb net urenlang bij de kapper gezeten.' 'Echt waar?' 'Nee, natuurlijk niet. Ik woon in een grot. Ik eet aarde. Wat denk je zelf? | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 768d4ff | Het misverstand dat trollen stom zijn is wijdverbreid. Maar trollen zijn in feite hooguit betrekkelijk stom. | Eoin Colfer |