October 2011
1 post
Quote: Jean-Baptiste Queru on Jobs, Ritchie; cake...
“That is why the mainstream press and the general population has talked so much about Steve Jobs’ death and comparatively so little about Dennis Ritchie’s: Steve’s influence was at a layer that most people could see, while Dennis’ was much deeper. On the one hand, I can imagine where the computing world would be without the work that Jobs did and the people he...
Oct 15th
June 2011
1 post
“Use of this program to generate postmodern poetry or sociology theses is...”
– John Walker’s Stego! Javascript steganography tool:  http://www.fourmilab.ch/javascrypt/stego.html
Jun 27th
February 2011
3 posts
“Why does an ebook reader need a page-turn effect? Like having a fake needle on a...”
– @blprint on Twitter … Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Feb 27th
“… one thing is to love science; a completely different one is doing it....”
– Massimo Sandal, on leaving academia.
Feb 18th
Feb 4th
December 2010
1 post
“The term ‘publish’ when used in science is nearly always...”
– Martin Robbins — http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/dec/08/2
Dec 11th
June 2010
1 post
“… by the early 1980s, the enzymes used in laundry detergents to treat...”
– Drew Endy, at the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 27th May, 2010.
Jun 2nd
May 2010
1 post
“Biological systems are just sufficiently advanced technology. When we...”
– Me, being highbrow.
May 31st
April 2010
3 posts
“… unlike 50 years ago when a fully fledged, master craftsman scientist...”
– Snippets taken from http://bitesizebio.com/2010/03/31/does-anyone-know-the-funny-handshake/
Apr 5th
“In which other profession do you make 8€/h after taxes with a Master’s and...”
– Bjorn Brembs — “Don’t Trust Scientists”
Apr 4th
“Bureaucracies temporarily reverse the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a...”
– Clay Shirky — “The Collapse of Complex Business Models”
Apr 1st
March 2010
1 post
“The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and...”
– Tim Bray - http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google
Mar 15th
January 2010
2 posts
“Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.”
– George Bernard Shaw - playwright, Nobel Laureate and technology pundit.
Jan 30th
“Build a command language interface that even an idiot can use, and only an idiot...”
– Know Your Personal Computer (1997), Chapter 9 - High-Level Operating Systems by S K Ghoshal. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02834576
Jan 30th
December 2009
2 posts
Dec 20th
“We currently enjoy a free lunch, because energy, food and cement prices do not...”
– Myles Allen, Head of Climate Dynamics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, in “Top climate scientists share their outlook”
Dec 5th
November 2009
2 posts
“It’s weird I had to solve my own medical problem”
– Jessica Terry, on diagnosing herself with Crohn’s disease in her highschool science class, based on intestinal biopsies.
Nov 22nd
“There are more yeast researchers than there are yeast genes, but there are still...”
– Christina Agapakis, “On Failure”.
Nov 9th
October 2009
3 posts
“1989 called and they want their license back.”
– Nathan de Vries, on the GPL and the definition of derivative works
Oct 26th
“The secret of life, the wellspring of reproduction, is not to be found in the...”
– Stuart Kauffman, ”At Home in the Universe”, Oxford University Press, 1995, p 47.
Oct 7th
“a computer for every pixel”
– Toby Hudon - Why DirectX 11 will save the video card industry and why you don’t care
Oct 5th
September 2009
2 posts
“Clay tablets were heavy and tended to shatter. Papyrus crumbled but at least it...”
– D0r0th34 quoting David Drake - http://friendfeed.com/neilfws/22ccd8a9/amusing-group-email-at-work-asks-why-can-t-we-just#c-4ce8974b1c9a4bcaa547036e130d1f99
Sep 16th
““Seriously? What? What can you do from a C64 shell on an iPhone?” ...”
–  Mechanik (104328) — http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1361481&cid=29353823
Sep 8th
August 2009
1 post
“The first speaker at a conference I attended told the audience that he would not...”
– Joseph of Stirling, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8213901.stm
Aug 24th
June 2009
1 post
“Despite a broad range of educational and prevention approaches, most programmes...”
– (Leaked) briefing document from the World Health Organisation & United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute Cocaine Project, 1995. via Ben Goldacre, This is my column. This is my column on drugs. Any questions?
Jun 12th
May 2009
1 post
“This is Singapore, if international graffiti writers think that we are not...”
– Slac (from an interview by Mark Holsworth)
May 10th
April 2009
6 posts
“It should be noted that both the pulling model and the Brownian ratchet model...”
– Andrew Perry (me), on the supposed ‘controversy’ over the “Brownian ratchet model” vs. the “pulling model” of mtHsp70 driven protein translocation into mitochondria.
Apr 23rd
“Thus, although a camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, it is...”
– Susanna Törnroth-Horsefield and Richard Neutze on flux through the VDAC pore in “Opening and closing the metabolite gate”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2008.
Apr 20th
“Much of the rationale for data sharing, the engine of much of its promise, is...”
– Bill Hooker
Apr 9th
“Ya see, there’s where T.S. Elliot went wrong. The world doesn’t...”
– jphilby, April 8, 2009 1:39 PM — (Endangered shark found. Eaten.)
Apr 8th
“Thank You, John Carmack Owing to Microsoft’s dominant market position and...”
– Ed Burnette in Hello Android.
Apr 4th
“You might even say that everyday is April 1st, somewhere on the Web.”
– Neil Saunders, on the Slideshare April Fools joke gone wrong … http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/slideshare-fail/
Apr 1st
March 2009
1 post
“GNUStep runs on Windows, and it’s about 90% compatible with the Cocoa API....”
– OrangeTide (124937) - http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1153123&cid=27114495
Mar 8th
February 2009
1 post
“The biggest issue with Zeitgeist is the way everything is mixed together-the...”
– Porter W. Richards — http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=12720
Feb 6th
January 2009
2 posts
“The key to moving to a more open scientific system is changing scientist’s...”
– Micheal Nielsen — http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=540
Jan 23rd
“Nokia’s preloaded apps encourage you to create — shoot video, share...”
– Linux.com :: Android-powered G1 phone is an enticing platform for app developers
Jan 6th
December 2008
1 post
1 tag
Dec 20th
November 2008
3 posts
4 tags
“a tool is neither good nor evil […] people need to make a fresh decision,...”
– http://lurena.vox.com/library/post/scientist-meets-small-children-and-doesnt-stop-talking-and-listening-all-day.html
Nov 28th
““I have been surfing the web for most of my school life, at school and home,...”
– … sixteen-year-old student who addressed the conference about her experiences with web filters … http://www.itnews.com.au/News/89981,net-filters-debated-by-experts-at-cyberlaw-forum.aspx
Nov 27th
2 tags
Nov 21st