Sublime

He began using the words “power” or “force” instead of “soul” and “spirit.” Kepler’s “moving power” was a precursor to gravity, an astounding mental leap because it came before science embraced the notion of physical forces that act throughout the universe.

Hubczejak note avec justesse que le plus grand mérite de Djerzinski n'est pas d'avoir su dépasser le concept de liberté individuelle (car ce concept était déjà largement dévalué à son époque, et chacun reconnaissait au moins tacitement qu'il ne pouvait servir de base à aucun progrès humain), mais d'avoir su, par le biais d'interprétations il est vr

Ever since he flew back from Russia and calculated the costs of building his own rockets, Musk had deployed what he called the “idiot index.” That was the ratio of the total cost of a component to the cost of its raw materials. Something with a high idiot index—say, a component that cost $1,000 when the aluminum that composed it cost only $100—was

“Computers were built in the late 1940s because mathematicians like John von Neumann thought that if you had a computer—a machine to handle a lot of variables simultaneously—you would be able to predict the weather. Weather would finally fall to human understanding.

What was unusual was that all of these astronauts had completed their missions in 1984 on solid rocket boosters that had shown signs of O-ring thermal distress in two or more joints with indications known to some of us that things in that regard probably weren't going to get better.