July 2010
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“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
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“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)
Ian Fleming's Typical Day While Writing
From the the December 1964 issue of Playboy (republished in Playboy Interviews)
PLAYBOY: Do you spend most of your time there [Jamaica] at the typewriter?
FLEMING: By no means. I get up with the birds, which is about half past seven, because they wake one up, and then I go and bathe in the ocean before breakfast. We don’t have to wear a swimsuit there, because it’s so private; my wife and I...
February 2010
7 posts
Vivaldi & Time
In Episode 7 of The Ascent of Man titled “The Majestic Clockwork” Jacob Bronowski discusses the Theory of Relativity.
In Episode 8 of Cosmos titled “Journeys in Space and Time” Carl Sagan discusses this same topic.
Both episodes have Vivaldi’s Winter mvt 1. Allegro non molto playing in the background while doing so.
Sagan, who was inspired to do Cosmos by seeing...
“By doubting we come to enquiry, and through enquiry we perceive truth.”
– Peter Abelard
“Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection,
the lovers, the dreamers...”
– Kermit the Frog
January 2010
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“They will put themselves out of themselves, and escape from being men;...”
– Michel de Montaigne, In an Essay
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December 2009
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“A reasonable number of fleas is good for a dog. Otherwise the dog forgets he is...”
– You Only Live Twice, Tiger Tanaka
November 2009
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“Be a hero, bring bagels.”
– Panera Bread Sign
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Everything Is Terrible!: The Exciting New World of... →
Early 80s computers were confusing and scary. Luckily, Steve Allen was there to help you laugh your computer fears away. With a computer, you can do anything from data entry to a slightly different kind of data entry!
October 2009
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“Its very annoying to people around you, to be hyperactive. It may be a...”
– Don Hewitt (of 60 Minutes)