muzak

Я вот тут сижу и пишу длинную статью по универсальному кодированию, а тем временем вышел новый альбом прекрасных Декабристов. И это не может не радовать.

from "Quicksilver"

A Puritan on the subject of finance: "I have given up hope, tonight, of ever understanding money. ... It follows simple rules --- it obeys logic --- and so Natural Philosophy should understand it, encompass it --- and I, who know and understand more than almost anyone in the Royal Society, should comprehend it. But I don't. I never will... if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than Alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules..."

Another Puritan on the subject of calculus: "... we must consider these, er, infinitesimals and evanescents in a way that is rigorous, pure, free from heathenish idolatry or French vanity or the metaphysical infatuations of the Papists."