Years after Meitner’s death, physicists in Darmstadt, Germany, fused two isotopes of bismuth and iron to make Element 109, the heaviest known element in the universe. In 1992, the physicists named their new element meitnerium—in honor of Lise Meitner. #Chemistry #Physics
The United States Atomic Energy Commission awarded its Enrico Fermi Award in 1966 to the entire fission team: Hahn, Meitner, and Strassmann. It was the first time that non-Americans had received the prize and the first time that a woman had won it. #Physics
Ada Lovelace described herself as a “poetical scientist.” She saw no division between art and science and knew that imagination and intuition are vital for a scientist. .. Since 2009, the second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day.
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BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC. #Excerpt
The one sure thing that will be inflicted upon us is more and tighter integration of ads. #Excerpt
If there’s one thing we know about PC hardware, it’s that it becomes outdated.
Neither seeking nor avoiding mathematical exercitations we enter into problems solely with a view to possible usefulness for physical science. -- Lord Kelvin and Peter Guthrie Tait in Treatise on Natural Philosophy Part II
Filesystems are an arms' race between storage and operating system.
You learn from experience. The main criteria for laptop/keyboard buying for me is numpad as well as US layout, dollar not pound.
Most Java systems don’t fail because they are too simple.
They fail because they are too clever. #Excerpt
Apple should focus either on hardware or software. #PersonalOpinion
It is the stark reminder that we can sometime harness the wind but we can not always master it. There will always be an element of risk and danger whether in glider or in powered aircraft. Pilots are always subject to the constraints and forces of the natural world. #Excerpt
The algebraic numbers are spotted over the plane like stars against a black sky, the dense blackness in the firmament of the transcendentals. -- ET Bell #quote #mathematics
Don’t cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty! -- Evariste Galois to his brother #quote
"To most people, mathematics makes the world more complicated, it doesn't do that! Math makes the world more simple! Mathematicians are simplistic creatures. We look at the world in the simplest possible way. ... We strip away the complexity! -- Keith Devlin #quote #mathematics
Real mathematics has no effect on war. -- GH Hardy (A Mathematician Apology, 1940)
The imaginary number is a fine and wonderful recourse of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and not being. -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Ode to a Flower!
The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as [a loom] weaves flowers and leaves. -- Ada Lovelace
My [algebraic] methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously. -- Emmy Noether
Knowing how to solve the problem is more important than what the solution is. #Excerpt
LPG may stand for Liquid Petroleum Gas in Pakistan and elsewhere, but for me it stands for Linux Python Gnome.
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightening travel in straight line. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
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Your first programming language is "the language" worth learning. In my case it was Fortran 77, that I never used after taking the course.
The best programming language is the one you get paid the most to write. I had none.
I think three generation of ext file systems in Linux kernel are are there for religious reasons. It can be two or four. Bcachfs might even be ext5. I do have a five year personal and some tentative educational/technical plan as well.
I have noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS. -- Larry DeLuca
Computer science is to the information revolution what mechanical engineering was to the industrial revolution. -- Robert Keller
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- Alan Perlis
Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay
