Remarks and citations

Remarks

Opmerkingen

Het leek zo'n aardige gedachte:
Ohne supernovae keine Phosphor, ohne Phosphor keine Gedanken.
Maar de nucleosynthese van P vindt plaats in sterren van >3 Mzon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus .

Citations

• Time flies like an arrow, fruitflies like bananas. (Anon).

• BUGS: No manual can take the place of good solid experience. (UNIX System V, man8).

• "... they were all very, you know, eh" (BBC World Service radio, 2010-12-23).

Citaten

• "Mama, wat is een koningsdrama?" (meisje in de trein n.a.v. kop in de Metro).

Citazioni

• Perché ciascuno può cominciare una guerra a sua posta, ma non finirla ...
Every one may begin a war at his pleasure, but cannot so finish it.
(Niccolò Machiavelli, Discorsi sopra la Prima Deca Di Tito Livio, Liv. 2 Ch. X. 1513-1519)

Books I am reading

• Nikolaj Wassiljewitsch Gogol, Die toten Seelen.

• Edward N. Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire.

• Vannoccio Vincenzio Augustino Luca Biringuccio, De la Pirotechnica.

• Bartelomeo Scappi, Opera Omnia.

• Francisco Bethencourt, The Inquisition, A Global History, 1478-1834.

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