quote archives

"The future depends on what we do in the present." - Mahatma Gandhi

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." - Sir James Dewar, Scientist (1877-1925)

interesting person archives

During World War II, a man named Vannevar Bush facilitated a relationship between the federal government, the American scientific community, and business. After the war, he helped institutionalize that relationship. As a result, organizations like the National Science Foundation and Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), were created. It was at ARPA that the Internet first began. Bush also wrote a paper entitled, "As We May Think," in 1945. In this paper he described a theoretical storage and retrieval device, called a "memex," which would use a system remarkably similar to what we now call hypertext.

word archives

transmogrify \trans-MOG-ruh-fy\, transitive verb:
To change into a different shape or to transform, often with bizarre or humorous effect.

statistic archives

44,000 lightning storms occur every day throughout the world. Lightning strikes the earth 6000 times a minute. Since your last breath, lightning has struck 100 times.