[ “When I told Mena about this last night, she said “where’s
the code?”.” ]

via
anil

[ “The PHP Perl extension was implemented to allow the usage of
Perl code from within PHP. It is a wrapper that embeds the Perl
interpreter and converts data from PHP to Perl and back.”
]

via

blackbeltjones

[ “He doesn’t think a thermostat is conscious. But he thinks
its behaviour embodies assumptions about the world, and these
can’t be distinguished, in their effects on the world, from
beliefs…” ]

[ “It’s important for porn to be legal. The government has no
business outlawing sex or sexual fantasy. But this principle is
not so sacred that we need to allow an industry to exploit and
endanger its workers. There’s no fundamental right to express
HIV. There’s no right to pay someone to play Russian roulette
for your entertainment.” ]

[ “To a great extent, the book is a chronicle of failure –
failure at the White House, failure at the CIA, failure at the
FBI, failure everywhere. Clarke is quite clear about this, and
his willingness to admit where he failed adds punch to his
criticism of other people – people who, to a large extent, have
still not admitted their failure.” ]

[ “Another point that I want to bring to your attention is that
book sales tell a very different story about technology
adoption than do many other statistics.” ]