The biennial “Aachener Membran Kolloquium” (AMK), organised by the Chair of Chemical Process Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, continues to be the international conference on industrial membrane applications.

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—Who said, “I'm saying nothing and I'm saying it”?

—John Cage?

—No. Yes. No.

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There are 600 planes in service on air lines in the United States and operating under the American flag to other countries—one air liner for every 9 Pullman cars.

—From “Air Transport Facts”, from the Aircraft Year Book for 1934, reproduced at Adventure Lounge.

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Sherlock Holmes seems to have caught on.
— A. Conan Doyle, in a letter to his mother shortly after publishing a few of the first Holmes stories in order to raise a little money, in Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. (See this review.)

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“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work’, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”

— Andy Warhol.

I read that Warhol used to go around with a cassette recorder in a shopping bag all the time, recording everything, and that made me think of how cumbersome the action on those things was. Most of them had these big tongue-like buttons at the top and you had to push down on them really hard, so that it seemed as if you were going to break the thing. Everybody had them, but they weren't satisfactory to begin with. Sort of transitional technology.

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