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The progress of the human mind

“Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”

Brien Cox, quoting Humphrey Davy

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The concept of universities

I have always liked the concept of universities as they were in Ancient Greece, where folks who had something cool to say would just come and say it. It wasn't about recognition; the impetus was the thought that you were resonating with ideas. Donald E. Knuth

The best computer programs

"... The best computer programs are the ones in which the computer itself "disappears," in which you work directly on the problem without having to be aware of the computer." Donald Norman. in The Psychology of Everyday Things. -Basic Books, 1988, p. 180.