Ruimte en Mobiliteit: 11/6/11

Monday, November 7, 2011

New York Transit Museum

Dear R&M-ers,

Although this blog seems a bit quiet, I thought to give some impressions of the New York Transit Museum. This slightly old fashion exhibition, built in an abandoned subway station in Brooklyn, is nonetheless very interesting and charming. It is all about the development of the subway system (1900 - 1925) and other public transport in New York City. For the public transport-lovers among us.

Best wishes,

Els

Quotes

"until we try how will we know-ow-ow-ow? How will we know until we try-y-y-y?"(Pennywise, 'Wouldn't It Be Nice', 1991)
"Het mooiste overkomt je, het minste is bedacht" (Freek de Jonge, quoted by Thomas)
"It is always possible to tune models to fit past data: it’s much harder to predict the future" (David Orrell, 2007)
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" (Niels Bohr, quoted by marco, 2009)
"As soon as we begin to consider structural uncertainty, or uncertainty in parameters for which no prior distribution is available […] tidy formal-ism breaks down" (Allen et al., quoted by Marco, 2009)