Lincos Quotes

#1. Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy.

Seth Shostak

#2. Poverty is a symptom - of the absence of a workable economy built on credible political, social, and legal institutions.

Steven D. Levitt

#3. Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#4. Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone ... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

Wayne Coyne

#5. I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

John Noble

#6. I think about how the world feels soft and steely at the same time and then not at all.

Tessie Regan

#7. I love the idea of embracing your curves and loving yourself while expressing it through fashion.

Hayley Hasselhoff

#8. ...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#9. Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Richard Dawkins

#10. Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

Roger Lewin