'We've got to bring an Ohio presence to the West Coast, and I think if we do that, we'll be fine.'

Get some more friends, you fucking loser!

Codexis controls most of the important patents for what is known as molecular evolution. This designs enzymes in the way that normal evolution designs organisms. It creates lots of variations on a theme, throws away the ones it does not want, and shuffles the rest in a process akin to sex. It then repeats the process on the survivors until something useful emerges—though, unlike natural evolution, there is a bit of intelligent design in the process, too.

Semantic Web promises to help solve information overload problems and deliver major productivity gains

Why do we need computers to understand semantics?

What bespoke his compulsive optimism, and was it, in the end, worth the loss of credibility?

'The NFL destroys families,' Pear said. 'I wish I had never played.'

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...you finish off as an orgasm.

This is going to be a league with a lot parody,

The Arctic's Northwest Passage has opened up fully because of melting sea ice, clearing a long-sought but historically impassable route between Europe and Asia

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [...] This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Over the past two generations, the number of left-handed Americans has nearly doubled.

a major shift in strategy and reduction in American troops might be feasible as soon as early next year

you can make Skype calls on an iPhone

No polynomial-time method for factoring large integers on a classical computer has yet been found, but it has not been proven that none exists.

Mobile phones, currently closed and self limited, will rival broadband computers. When based on Open standards, they will deliver ubiquitous computing and vanish.

Google says it is happy with its smaller free Wi-Fi project, in its home city of Mountain View. Word is that lately, a good portion of the usage comes from iPhones.

Anisotropy is a property that determines 'how happy an atom is to point in a certain direction,'