"We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise mathematical terms, and as a commodity we can measure, market, regulate and tax it."

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Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.11, Harvard University Press

Hans Christian von Baeyer

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“I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.”
“At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what we do not know in an immeasurably richer way than we did. And learning this has been a remarkable achievement-among the greatest and least-known of the modern era.”

Source : David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin
“I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.”

Source : "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”
“Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.”
“Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in real African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.”
“When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.”
“In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.”

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