An expansionist’s rant ...

A fistful of dollars 

"If we’re going to be here as a species 5,000 years from now, we’re not going to do it with seven billon people".

     ... Ted Turner (b. 1938), American media mogul, comments on the impact of demographic trends on future greenhouse gas emissions, a little discussed subject given its political sensitivity.

Pattern recognition

Cricket fan

"I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations".



     ... Godfrey Harold “G. H.” Hardy (1877-1947), prominent English mathematician (number theory), an excerpt from "A Mathematician's Apology" (1941).