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Manuel's Place

This is the private homepage of Manuel Ebert; designer, musician, developer and cognitive scientist (not necessarily in this order) currently based in Durban, South Africa Birmingham, UK Osnabrück, Germany.

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There are only two rational ways to deal with pain: to ignore or to embrace. The difference between a pervert and a saint lies in employing the right strategy at the right time.

Usted replicará que la realidad no tiene la menor obligación de ser interesante. Yo le replicaré que la realidad puede prescindir de esa obligación, pero no las hipótesis.

JL Borges (La muerte y la brújula)

I posted ten puns on facebook, hoping one would make you laugh… but no pun in ten did.

No, that computer is NOT broken. It’s now called “differently cabled”.

A bus station...

… is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I figured, I have a work station…

Education

… is an inflatable rubber crocodile in the ocean of enlightenment, granting non-swimmers a slight chance of survival.

Zeit

Wir wollten die Zeit totzuschlagen, doch wir kamen zu spät - sie war bereits abgestorben.

Wouldn’t the sentence “I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign” have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Martin Gardner

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

William Blake

Should have sticked to music. Worry about which drug to try next, not which compiler.