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"Floating point comparisons continue to be the worst thing imaginable." — Jul 26, 2015 03:27PM
"Floating point comparisons continue to be the worst thing imaginable." — Jul 26, 2015 03:27PM
“My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.”
― Perdido Street Station
― Perdido Street Station
“A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.”
― The Gone-Away World
― The Gone-Away World
“It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
― Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany
― Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany
“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
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“Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish.”
― Cryptonomicon
― Cryptonomicon
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