I have been after an adventure all my life, a pure dispassionate adventure, such as befell early and heroic voyagers; and thus to be found by morning in a random wood-side nook in Gevaudan – not knowing north from south, as strange to my surroundings as the first man upon the earth, an inland castaway – was to find a fraction of my daydreams realized.
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
No use to them but it’s useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?
– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
Information is defined only once you have defined who is talking to whom and in what context.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
…women were appallingly practical: they built new plans at once out of the ruins of the old.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
…or perhaps it was only that the desire of life moves in cycles was returning – any sort of life.
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory
One had to begin with a “simplification and reduction of the results of previous investigations to a form in which the mind can grasp them.”
– James Clerk Maxwell, found in Tor Norretranders’ The User Illusion
Information is a measure of randomness because randomness is a measure of disorder: something that is difficult to describe.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace not in that ridiculous fashion.
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland