Daily FortunesMay 7, 2008
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living,...
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard
dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft,
pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it.
-- Alfred Bester, "The Stars...
Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate.
Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate.
Those who can, do; those who can't, write.
Those who can't...
Those who can, do; those who can't, write.
Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was...
... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage
from beginning to end.
-- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War"
Three great scientific theories of the structure of...
Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are the
molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic. A fourth affirms, with
Haeckel, the condensation or precipitation of matter from ether -- whose
existence is proved by the condensation or precipitation ...
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