Idioteque Chords Quotes & Sayings

That bookshops will one day disappear altogether and be replaced by mail order, that eventually books themselves would be finally and fully buried by that awful foe, so much cheaper and easier to carry: newspapers. — Matthew Pearl

It is important in life not to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once. If you want something in life, reach out and grab it. — Christopher McCandless

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it? — Nell Irvin Painter

The sixteenth-century schism was really a belated revolt of the thirteenth-century pessimists. It was a back-wash of the old Augustinian Puritanism against the Aristotelian liberality. — G.K. Chesterton

Life is a gift. Regard it as such. Return the blessing through each life you touch. Every seed planted, springs forth new birth. Allow your bouquet to cover the earth. — Lorna Jackie Wilson

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted — Thomas Cranmer

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says. — Jane Seymour

In a hypothetical, extremely simple Cloud Ark consisting of only two arklets, only one calculation needed to be performed: namely, the calculation that answered the question "Will Arklet 1 bang into Arklet 2 if both stay on their current courses?" In a three-arklet cloud, it was also necessary to figure out whether Arklet 1 would collide with Arklet 3, and whether 2 and 3 were going to collide. So, that was a total of three calculations. If the cloud expanded to four arklets, six calculations were needed, and so on. In mathematical terms these were known as triangular numbers, a kind of binomial coefficient, but the bottom line was that the number of calculations went up rapidly with the number of arklets in the cloud. — Neal Stephenson