When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.