Slave
"Khabu? said the Shah again, peering out at the city.
"The Shah wishes to know, please, where we are now,' said
Khashdrahr. 'I know,' said Halyard, smiling wanly. It had been khabu and siki and akka sahn until he was half out of his mind. He leaned forward. 'Ilium, New York, your highness. We are about to cross the
Sayfa 28 - paladin
Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do? Think about it. Should you not rather blame yourself, for not anticipating that this man would make this error?
Mariners
9. As mariners take to sea with them charts constructed as though the sea were a level surface,. however these charts may err as to the true form of this level surface taken as a whole, it is clear, as they find them answer their purpose tolerably well—and only tolerably well, for many ships are wrecked owing to the error of which we speak—that the surface of the sea is as it is taken to be, whether the captain of the ship " supposes" the Earth to be a globe or anything else. Thus, then, we draw, from the common system of " plane sail- ing/' a practical proof that Earth is not a globe.
Sayfa 7 - BaltimoreKitabı yarım bıraktı
Willful blindness is the refusal to know something that could be known. It’s refusal to admit that the knocking sound means someone at the door. It’s refusal to acknowledge the eight-hundred-pound gorilla in the room, the elephant under the carpet, the skeleton in the closet. It’s refusal to admit to error while pursuing the plan. Every game has
Sayfa 213 - Rule 8Kitabı okudu
In one tragicomic incident in October 2017, a Palestinian labourer posted to his private Facebook account a picture of himself in his workplace, alongside a bulldozer. Adjacent to the image he wrote ‘Good morning!’ An automatic algorithm made a small error when transliterating the Arabic letters. Instead of ‘Ysabechhum!’ (which means ‘Good morning!’), the algorithm identified the letters as ‘Ydbachhum!’ (which means ‘Kill them!’). Suspecting that the man might be a terrorist intending to use a bulldozer to run people over, Israeli security forces swiftly arrested him. He was released after they realised that the algorithm made a mistake.
IN TABERNA QUANDO SUMUS
Primo pro nummata vini;
(First, for the payment of the wine)
(i.e. who pays for the wine).
ex hac bibunt libertini;
(Then the boozers start to drink;)
semel bibunt pro captivis,
(they drink once to those in prison,)
post haec bibunt ter pro vivis,
(after that, three times for the living,)
quater pro Christianis cunctis,
(four