Quote of the day
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.
F. M. Powicke

Born: June 16, 1879
Died: May 19, 1963 (aged 83)
Bio: Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke was an English medieval historian. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a professor at Belfast and Manchester, and from 1928 until his retirement Regius Professor at Oxford. He was knighted in 1946.
Known for:
- The thirteenth century, 1216-1307 (1953)
- Handbook of British chronology (1939)
- The Loss of Normandy (1913)