"Once I get the OK on the roughs I start the finished drawings. I sort of begin this stage slowly, because doing the finished work always ends up being a seven-day week. An all day, and all evening ordeal. I always anticipate I can draw the books faster than I can. That is a big mistake, since it adds a lot of anxiety, and aggravation to the project. I thought I had developed a system with the last one. I worked on the book in batches of 15 pages or so. I even kept a record to see how long it took me to do the pencils, and how long it took me to do the inks, but it still ended up being seven days a week for a couple of months. I find I have to get some momentum going when I draw. I can't work with interruptions. I like to have three or four days where I don't even leave the house on an errand. I get a lot more done that way, because I build up a head of steam."

Don Martin

"As mathematicians discovered new algorithms, and computers became available, the number of known decimal digits of π increased dramatically. The vertical scale is logarithmic.

For most numerical calculations involving π, a handful of digits provide sufficient precision. According to Jörg Arndt and Christoph Haenel, thirty-nine digits are sufficient to perform most cosmological calculations, because that is the accuracy necessary to calculate the circumference of the observable universe with a precision of one atom. Accounting for additional digits needed to compensate for computational round-off errors, Arndt concludes that a few hundred digits would suffice for any scientific application. Despite this, people have worked strenuously to compute π to thousands and millions of digits.

This effort may be partly ascribed to the human compulsion to break records, and such achievements with π often make headlines around the world. They also have practical benefits, such as testing supercomputers, testing numerical analysis algorithms (including high-precision multiplication algorithms); and within pure mathematics itself, providing data for evaluating the randomness of the digits of π."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

With Jonathan Frakes



https://youtube.com/watch?v=9S1EzkRpelY

"An jenem Abend kam Utterson in düsterer Stimmung in seine Junggesellenwohnung und setzte sich ohne Appetit zum Essen nieder. Es war seine Gewohnheit, sich sonntags nach der Mahlzeit dicht an das Kaminfeuer zu setzen und irgendein langweilig frommes Buch auf seinem Lesepult liegen zu haben, bis es auf dem nahen Kirchturm zwölf Uhr schlug, worauf er nüchtern und dankbar zu Bett ging."

Aus R. L. Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde"

The captain is calling...

"Wir sind nicht nur ersetzbar, wir werden ersetzt."

Christian Boltanski

"If you're gonna cry the blues, get a good rythm section."

Carmen Cicero

Isaac Asimov – 1956



https://youtube.com/watch?v=ojEq-tTjcc0

"Habe ich Heimat? Nein, Outsider hier, Outsider da, kein Mensch will mich haben. Allein, allein mit der Kunst. Und ich will sie halten diese spröde Geliebte, die immer reizvoller wird je älter ich werde, und wenn ich auch das letzte bisschen Beachtung verliere, was ich heute noch habe. Es ist ein merkwürdiges Gefühl, wie ich heute gehandelt werde. Die Achtung ist sehr komisch, die man mir heute entgegenbringt. Ob ich mich richtig benehme? Ich kann nur so sein, wie ich bin. Ich bin einfach, treu und recht. Ich habe ja alles verloren, was ich an Getue gehabt haben mag, und absichtlich nie."

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 21.12.1925