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wonder kid
"Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits long you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living."
"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime ( Read more... ) -
lessons learned
"Every novel that Orwell wrote ends in defeat. The main character attempts to fight the system, but, just when you think the obstacles have been surmounted, he or she loses the battle. In The Clergyman's Daughter, Dorothy makes a brief bid for freedom from the constraints of her domestic servitude, but ends up returning to a life of buying bacon ( Read more... ) -
man in the mirror
i must be the most judgmental and moralistic person i know. -
they also serve who only stand and wait
C.S. Lewis - only one of the greatest English writers of the 20th century. Why did i take so long to getting round to read his books for adults?
*"I hope no reader will suppose that 'mere' Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions - as if a man could adopt it in preference to Congregationalism or ( Read more... ) -
i've been geeking around!
after (most probably) 5 years, i finally changed my desktop picture and finally learnt how to do a 'print screen' on my ibook:
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from the red bull booklet
"OUR CALENDAR IS GETTING FULLER - AND WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF ENERGY."
"... the mountain cyclist who charges up the steepest mountain, the cab driver who is able to drive all night long without fear, the ambitious manager who keeps on going with full focus into the midnight hours, the modern woman who juggles career, family and household and still ( Read more... ) -
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"Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it. She wished she could see Laila again, wished to hear the clangor of her laugh, to sit with her once more for a pot of chai and leftover halwa under a ( Read more... )
