"If we arrive at an equation containing on each side the same term but with different coefficients, we must take equals from equals until we get one term equal to another term. But, if there are on one or on both sides negative terms, the deficiencies must be added on both bides until all the terms on both sides are positive. Then we must take equals from equals until one term is left on each side."

"No definite and permanent advance is made in any kind of work, whether with materials or men, until use is made of measurement."

"My main problem with 64-bit binary is that it’s one extra compile to do every time you want to release binaries, so you have to maintain one build system for your 64-bit binary and then every time you…"

"There is no direct observational evidence for the curvature , the only directly observed data being the mean density and the expansion, which latter proves that the actual universe corresponds to the …"

"The inconsistency of first explaining matter by atoms and then explaining atoms by matter was only slowly realised, and it is only comparatively recently that we have come to see that there is nothing…"