Joe Petviashvili

“Utterly undetectable. Requires a flux capacitor, walnut, and alternator output of 600 watts. Special order only.”

“Big ideas come easy to John McAfee. First he pioneered antivirus software, then instant messaging. Now the mercurial magnate thinks he's on to something truly extraordinary: personal Icarus machines.”

can you spot tetris?

One Laptop Per Cow?

Binary adding machine - marbles+wood = supercomputer

“coating a surface with wafer-thin layers of special metal powder. A laser beam heats – or sinters – the powdered metal in the exact places that need to be firm. “It’s like baking a cake,””

“Binary pulsars are the best place to test general relativity in a strong gravitational field”

“Apocalyptism: Hey, man, have you heard? There’s this bunch of, like, crazy nerds out there, who think that some kind of unspecified huge nerd thing is going to happen. What a bunch of wackos! It’s geek religion, man.”

“Once you've trained to fight a real war, you can forget about winning at paintball.”

“At Google we do not manually change results. For example, if we find for a particular query that result No. 4 should be result No. 1, we do not have the capability to manually change it”

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“With the help of a GPS device and DHL, I have drawn a self portrait on our planet,” writes Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar on his website for the project, appropriately named http://biggestdrawingintheworld.com. “My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS more...