“Leibniz wanted to combine physics, mathematics, logic, and philosophy, and he would no doubt have loved this joke: An engineer, a mathematician, a logician, and a philosopher were traveling through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train. "Aha", says the engineer, "I see that Scottish sheep are black." "Hmm", says the mathematician, "You mean that some Scottish sheep are black." "No", says the logician, "All we know is that there is at least one black sheep in Scotland." "And even", the philosopher continued, "The only thing we can be really sure of is that the side facing us is black.” LogicInformaticsMatemathics Book:Homo Informatix Source: Homo Informatix
“Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriators," "an absolute crime demands an absolute penalty," "they did it to me so I can do it to them," and, in general, the emotional mathematics of "one plus one equals zero" (1 + 1 = 0). The primates were so dumb they didn't realize that one plus one equals two (1 + 1 = 2) and one murder plus one murder equals two murders, one crime plus one crime equals two crimes, etc.” ViolenceCrimeStupidityRevengePrimatesVendettaMatemathics Book:Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy Source: Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy