September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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“[I was a] bad student, because I was so thrilled with life that I couldn’t...”
– Katharine Hepburn about how she was as a student on The Dick Cavett Show
“Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so...”
– Doug Bowman, Goodbye Google (via Mike Rundle)
I love this farewell post by Google’s visual design lead because it confirms a theory I’ve long held: that Google is a company where engineers are the ruling class, while at Apple it’s designers. This is by no means meant to denigrate the work of some...
June 2011
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“We’re gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make...”
– Steve Jobs
April 2011
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“Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other...”
– The Lisp Curse
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March 2011
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“SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I’ve seen...”
– Philip Greenspun
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February 2011
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Will there ever be a computer that laughs at...
NOVA: Will there ever be a computer that laughs at Seinfeld?
Marvin Minsky: The answer is probably somebody, some graduate student, will program a computer that only laughs at Seinfeld.
January 2011
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December 2010
3 posts
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WatchAlbert Hibbs describing Richard Feynman’s costume at one of his parties. From the Horizon documentary “No Ordinary Genius” on the life of Richard Feynman.
November 2010
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“To use an analogy, if SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)...”
– Peter Norvig
September 2010
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“Don’t do anything that someone else can do. Don’t undertake a...”
– Edwin Land
August 2010
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“I liken starting one’s computing career with Unix, say as an...”
– Ken Pier, Xerox PARC
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“Most large industrial concerns are limited by policy to special directions of...”
– Edwin H, Land, 1945
July 2010
2 posts
“I think what liberal arts educations is supposed to be about, is to get fluent...”
– Alan Kay — The Early History of Smalltalk
June 2010
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May 2010
2 posts
“By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just...”
– Steve Jobs
April 2010
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“Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future,...”
– Steve Jobs
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“[symbols] have as much resemblance to the real qualities of the material world...”
– Arthur Eddington
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“If you obey all the rules, you will miss all the fun.”
– Katharine Hepburn
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“Just as a museum is a place for the muses who inspire art, so an athenaeum is a...”
– Wikipedia
March 2010
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“The stars would love nothing more than to reveal your future this week, but...”
– Horoscope from The Onion
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“To be sure, when the pioneer in science sends forth the groping feelers of his...”
– Max Planck
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Gravitational Force of an Obstetrician
In the episode entitled “The Harmony of the Worlds” of Cosmos, Carl Sagan seeks to debunk Astrology as a fraud. He states:
It turns out that astrologers can’t even agree among themselves what a given horoscope means. In careful tests, they are unable to predict the character and future of people they know nothing else about except the time and place of birth. Also, how could it...
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Originality, Emphasis, Economy
An art dealer (this story is authentic) bought a canvas signed ‘Picasso’ and travelled all the way to Cannes to discover whether it was genuine. Picasso was working in his studio. He cast a single look at the canvas and said: ‘It’s a fake’.
A few months later the dealer bought another canvas signed Pícasso. Again he travelled to Cannes and again Picasso, after a...
Rhyming Slang →
This slang first started in Elizabethan times when street merchants used rhyming slang as a means to communicate with each other without the customers understanding them.
So they would come up with rhyming phrases to replace words then in sentence usage drop the rhyming word. For instances, the slang for stairs isapples and pears, but when you say, “I’m going up the stairs.” you would instead...
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“Linux is only free if your time has no value.”
– Jamie Zawinski
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“Well I felt like when I was in college and elementary school, well all the way...”
– Alan Kay on problems facing students today. From Doing with Images Makes Symbols Pt 2 (1987)