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In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.


William L. Shirer


#nuclear-weapons #war #weaponry #age

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?


Tim O'Brien


#age

... the blast signatures of a detonated supernova and that of a nuclear bomb are identical.


Eric Chaisson


#nuclear-bomb #supernova #age

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.


Linus Torvalds


#before #commercial #developers #hard #interests

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.


Núria Añó


#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did.


Cassandra Clare


#jem-carstairs #magnus-bane #age

Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu numerals to the Muslim world. Both wrote books on the subject during al-Ma'mun's reign, and it was their work that was translated into Latin and transmitted to the West, thus introducing Europeans to the decimal system, which was known in the Middle Ages only as Arabic numerals. But it would be many centuries before it was widely accepted in Europe. One reason for this was sociological: decimal numbers were considered for a long time as symbols of the evil Muslim foe.


Jim Al-Khalili


#muslims #numbers #age

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.


Goldwin Smith


#country #england #famine #find #machines

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.


Patti Smith


#continue #lot #me #pretend #pretending

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.


Robert Smith


#any #anyone #band #case #door






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