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It is hard to imagine. But somewhere in unimaginable outer space, among hundreds of billions of very different galaxies, on the boring outskirts of one of them, a small, entirely unremarkable yellow dwarf was circling: our Sun.
I have always been interested in people who show themselves not in one narrow field, but in many. And the greater the difference between those fields, the more interesting it is.
If William of Malmesbury can be trusted, once, when John was dining with the king, the king asked: "What separates a Scot from a sot?" John answered: "Only the width of the dinner table!"
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I would not brood. I would type a little faster.
The book tells about the life of Richard Phillips Feynman, the famous American physicist, well-known popularizer of science, and simply a good person.
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live — Damian Conway.
The crows that day were flying across the sky not ordinary ones, but red ones. The omen was the very worst, but what of it: it had been a long time since there had been good portents in Mnogoborye.
I found this picture of Harold Clayton Lloyd, an American actor and film director known for his silent comedies. The origin of the clock scene from Back to the Future becomes clear.
Usually Pete used his own door, but he categorically refused to go out through it as soon as snow fell.