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Rubbish is immortal, it pervades the air, swells up in water, dissolves, rots, disintegrates, changes into gas, into smoke, into soot, it travels across the world and gradually engulfs it. (...) Rubbish is like death. What else is there that is so indestructible?

The Apocalypse can take different forms. The least dramatic, at first sight, is the one in which man perishes under an avalanche of useless objects, empty words, and excessive activity.

As in real life, complex engineering designs demand a pragmatic approach.

The brain can be put to better use by reducing anxiety, just as reducing friction between threads can increase the torque transferred to the axial load.

In engineering, the joints are the most crucial. They have to be both firm and flexible, exactly like the joints in our body.