“I think what liberal arts educations is supposed to be about, is to get fluent and deep while building realtionships with other fluent deep knowledge. Our society has lowered its aims so far that it is happy with “increases in scores” without daring to inquire whether any important threshold has been crossed.”
PDP-11/70 Processor Handbook, 1976 (via pdp12)
Mike’s Marbleopolis
“By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”
(via merlin (via notdickless (via gregrutter)))
“Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.”
“[symbols] have as much resemblance to the real qualities of the material world … as a telephone number has to a subscriber.”
