Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.Steven Pinker
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.Steven Pinker
I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.Linus Torvalds
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.Linus Torvalds
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?Montesquieu
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.Francis Bacon
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.Jane Austen
