Entries from July 2009 ↓

According to this bottom line piece, British forces in Hellmand Province, Afghanistan, have 20 helicopters to support 9,000 troops – not sure who’s running that whole effort, but that’s the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of in a modern war scenario…

I think this guy is almost certainly 99.997% on the money…

“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
– Albert Einstein

“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.”
– Johann von Neumann

“We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and’.”
– Sir Arthur Eddington

von Neumann is an old favourite of mine… :-)