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Crónica do Pássaro de Corda

by Haruki Murakami

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Os Escolhidos (The Chosen Ones, #1)

by Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)

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Auto Da Índia / Quem Tem Farelos? / Farsa De Inês Pereira / O Juíz Da Beira / Farsa Dos Almocreves / Romagem Dos Agravados: Sátiras Sociais

by Gil Vicente

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“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems

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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

(Describing, in 1685, the value to astronomers of the hand-cranked calculating machine he had invented in 1673.)”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

tags: astronomy, calculator, labour, machine, science, slaves, time

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