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Happy New Year computing Scotland

Saturday 31st December 2011
Google Doodle; http://www.google.co.uk/

Gaberlunzie was mulling the problem of summing up 2011 and looking into 2012. As ever, Google to the rescue with its New Year Doodle simply dropped 2011 into YouTube. It's a lot to digest, heart-breaking and jubilant, in fact everything everthing that's human.

But Gaberlunzie had something else. He can fall very hard for brilliant quotes and he thinks this one stands up to most.  It's Alan Moore (right) on Science and Imagination

"My basic premise is that human beings are amphibious, in the etymological sense of 'two lives.' We have one life in the solid material world that is most perfectly measured by science. Science is the most exquisite tool that we've developed for measuring that hard, physical, material world.

"Then there is the world of ideas, which is inside our head. I would say that both of these worlds are equally real - they're just real in different ways. The concept of a world of ideas, yes it's intangible, it can't be repeated in a laboratory, but pretty much the evidence for it is all around us.

"In that, every detail of our clothing, our mindsets, of the buildings and the streets and cities that surround us - that started life as an idea in someone's head."

Courtesy: Forbes

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