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"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it." – Alan Perlis
"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject." – Hannah Arendt, in "Platonic Noise", p. 43.
"A virus is a form of life with very simple requirements. The basic needs of a virus are a nucleic acid to be transmitted from generation to generation (the genome) and a messenger RNA to direct the synthesis of viral proteins. The critical viral proteins that the messenger RNA must encode are those that coat the genome and those that help replicate the genome. One of the great surprises of modern…
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