User:Vincenzo.romano

Nomen Omen! There's nothing to be said more than what has been already written somewhere else. A kind of biography or, less pretentiously, a collection of personal notes would be too large to fit this web page. Thus I abstain from it.

Books

 * Junior Science by W.D. Barras
 * The book of Pyramids by C.W. Ceram
 * La Divina Commedia by D. Alighieri
 * BASIC Programming by B.S. Gottfried
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by D.N. Adams


 * Gödel, Escher, Bach by D. Hofstadter
 * Who Wrote the Bible? by R.E. Friedman
 * Il Pendolo di Foucault by U. Eco
 * J.L. Borges: Opera Omnia
 * The Fabric of Reality by D. Deutsch

... among many, many others

Places

 * Prato
 * Cervino
 * Arienzo
 * Maddaloni
 * Pisa
 * Malta
 * Angers


 * Santa Brigida
 * Piacenza
 * Haarlem
 * Trondheim
 * Sant'Angelo in Formis
 * Prata Sannita
 * Mirabella Eclano


 * Napoli
 * Erding
 * Scunthorpe
 * Fremont, CA
 * San Nicola la Strada
 * Den Haag
 * Ciorlano
 * Rotterdam

Music

 * In the mood by G. Miller
 * Pink Panther theme by H. Mancini
 * My Sharona by Knack
 * Autobahn by Kraftwerk
 * Video Killed the Radio Star by Buggles
 * I saw her standing there by Beatles


 * Pictures at an Exhibition by M. Mussorgsky
 * Walk this way by Aerosmith along with Run D.M.C.
 * The Musical Offering (BWV1079) by J.S. Bach
 * Canaria canaria by Santa B. Boys
 * Symphony no. 2 in E minor Op. 27 by S. Rachmaninoff
 * Nauta by Vincenzo Romano

Film & TV

 * Doctor Who (the seasons featuring Tom Baker)
 * Sapphire and Steel
 * Star Trek (the original series)
 * Quest for Fire by J.J. Annaud
 * Quark by Piero Angela


 * Blade Runner (Director's and Final cuts)
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * The Monty Python
 * The Simpsons

Thoughts

 * Claudio is. I'm a little bit less. 1988
 * Maybe computers will never become as intelligent as Humans. For sure they won't ever become so stupid. 1989
 * A computer 10 times faster can also execute 10 times more errors in any unit of time. 1991
 * History teaches us that History doesn't teach anything. 1995
 * Non quietis maribus nauta peritus. (The sailorman doesn't gain skills over smooth seas) 1997
 * Speed is a virtue that can generate a vice which is hurry. 2000


 * Human intelligence has limits. Stupidity has none. 2003
 * Big the sail, strong the wind, the mast broke up. 2007
 * The Law with no control is like the omelette without eggs. 2008
 * More semplification, worse idiocy. 2012
 * Fictile vasum inter illa ex ferro timeat. (The vase made by clay should fear to stay among those made by iron) 2017

Misc
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