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• You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
  -- Leo Szilard -- A Random Walk in Science compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza...
• Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
  -- Werner von Braun -- A Random Walk in Science compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza...
• The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
  -- Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov -- A Random Walk in Science compiled by R....
• Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more.
  I went to their seminar and was depressed by my inability to understand them....
• Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!
  and all was light. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton It did not la...
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
• On randomly generated sentences.] I think that it is hard to read such material without amusement.
  I feel a little admiration as well. I would never write, 'It happened one frosty look of trees waving gracefully against the wall....
• Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.