was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice).
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Le Smoking
In some ways programs are among the most complicated artefacts mankind ever trued to design, and personally I find it fascinating to see that reasoning about them is so much aided by simple, elegant devices such as predicate calculus and lattice theory. After more than 45 years in the field, I am still convinced that in computing, elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure; in this connection I gratefully quote from The Concise Oxford Dictionary a definition of “elegant”, viz. “ingeniously simple and effective”. Amen. EWD 1284
Iceland’s Minister of Industry and Minister of Social Affairs during a discussion on emergency economic laws.
Þú húðlita bjargráð, þú innyflum útfyllta sin;
undirlögð margræðum sósum, á laukstráðu beði.
Af algleymisfögnuði langþráðum logar mitt gin
er ljúkast um enda þér titrandi varir, af gleði. Einar Ben
