Book and quote, lewis thomas and Zorg

"I don't like warriors. Too narrow-minded, no subtlety. And worse, they fight for hopeless causes. Honor? Huh! Honor's killed millions of people, it hasn't saved a single one. Tell you what I do like though: a killer. A dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold-blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would have immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun"
Zorg, The Fifth Element

I was craving biology today . So I found this at home. Interesting book. Was recommended in school by Rahul, but I didn't get with it. It now ties in with my cybernetics and emergent systems madness.

Got my hands on "Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World". The clerk at the library said the book was not available in the centre we were in, whereas our research had pointed otherwise.When we found the book, I wondered if I could hit the guy across the face with it, because , you know, if it didn't exist in this particular centre, he wouldn't feel anything if we hit him with something that didn't exist ...

Did you know that in the movie "Empire of the Sun", the little boy who is the main character is actually Christian Bale !?! Talk about paying your dues ...