“Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.” IfsWorldYearsMindHumansEarthValuesChoicesHuman BeingsNumbersFiveSixComputerRedBlueAliens Author:Paul Erdos
“Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!” WritingHumansLiteratureHuman BeingsSlaveAliensMotto Author:Julia Alvarez