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• life n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner ("Scientific American", October 1970)
  he game's popularity had to wait a few years for computers on which it could reasonably be played, as it's no fun to simulate the cells by hand....
• It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.
  For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time....
• life: n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner ("Scientific American", October 1970)
  he game's popularity had to wait a few years for computers on which it could reasonably be played, as it's no fun to simulate the cells by hand....
• When told he was making more per year than the President, Babe Ruth replied, "Well, I had a better year than he did.
• The best may slip, and the most cautious fall; He's more than mortal that ne'er err'd at all.
  -- Pomfre...
• There is more to life than meets the mind.
• It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem.
  For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time....
• He had studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had learned to write equations of the most abstruse kind, without as much as a tremble of the chalk.
  -- Isaac Asimov "More Things in Heaven and Earth...