David's Blog

Just a place I can ruminate and post interesting stuff.

May
15th

Tue

Would you tell me which way I ought to go from here?” Alice said. ”That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. ”I don’t much care where…”, said Alice. ”Then it doesn’t matter which way you go” said the Cat.

— Alice in Wonderland

Mar
21st

Wed

The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.

— Gibbon, Memoirs