Peter Watts Professions : Author Born : January 25, 1958 Browse All Authors Top 28 quotes by Peter Watts Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. Peter Watts spheres jazz beautiful If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert Peter Watts dilbert boss brain Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder. Peter Watts damage easier murder Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black. Peter Watts black stars sky It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion. Peter Watts mourn lambs lions What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset? Peter Watts obsessing sunset survival Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway. Peter Watts axes circles perfect Firms are already thinking about things like applying for bank licenses. Peter Watts company-news Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors