Attending ICSB 2010: £435. Train ticket to Edinburgh: £58. Windows freezing during Microsoft Research VP’s talk: priceless
Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose.
— Vannevar Bush, 1945
Science publishing now is like transporting needles in huge bales of hay. There is a tremendous amount of redundancy and padding in articles.
— Jan Velterop
I can pretend to be a fission yeast and I can do it quite well
— Sir Paul Nurse
Q: What is Ontology? A: It Depends on What the Meaning of “Is” Is.

Jan Korbel gives a beautiful example of how even high-resolution maps can be flawed. This old map of the world is pretty accurate except from Australia being absent.