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  1. We think today solely from the perspective of what would make it easier for a person to use a computer. It may be time to ask what will make it easier for computers to deal with humans.
    -- Nicholas Negroponte

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NicholasNegroponte #Computers

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  2. The conventional pedagogy persists because it conveys a view of reality that simplifies our lives. By this view, we and our world become objects to be lined up, counted, organized and owned, rather than a community of selves and spirits related to each other in a complex web of accountability called "truth." The conventional pedagogy pretends to give us mastery over the world, relieving us of the need for mutual vulnerability that the new epistemologies, and truth itself, imply.
    -- Parker J. Palmer (To Know as We Are Known)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ParkerJPalmer #Society

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  3. We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
    -- Eric Hoffer

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EricHoffer #Innovation

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  4. You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
    -- Eric Hoffer

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EricHoffer #Fear

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  5. Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
    -- Alexander Hamilton

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderHamilton #Effort #Genius

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  6. There is this sense that if we just interact more -- make one more phone call or send one extra email -- we will get more done. We will get ahead or, at least, catch up. The truth is that the more we communicate, the more we MUST communicate.
    -- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

    #Wisdom #Quotes #TomSteinertThrelkeld #Multitasking

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  7. When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.
    -- Humpty Dumpty (Lewis Carroll)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #HumptyDumpty #Humor #Meaning #Words

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  8. Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
    -- Barbara Tuchman

    #Wisdom #Quotes #BarbaraTuchman #Discipline #FollowingOrders

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  9. We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos.
    -- Katie Mack (The End of Everything)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #KatieMack #Life #Nature

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  10. Have you considered that if you take the list of things you assume and invert it you would get a far more useful set of assumptions?
    -- Richard Caley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardCaley #Assumptions

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  11. Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
    -- William Strunk Jr.

    #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamStrunkJr #Writing

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  12. By nature's kindly disposition, most questions which are beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
    -- George Santayana

    #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeSantayana #Nature #Knowledge

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  13. What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
    -- Boris Pasternak

    #Wisdom #Quotes #BorisPasternak #Life #Truth

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  14. The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
    -- Marion Zimmer Bradley

    #Wisdom #Quotes #MarionZimmerBradley #Despair #Hope

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  15. The Internet is restructuring society, shifting our educational market away from one in which producers define the nature of the educational product and the nature of its delivery, toward one in which the consumer is in charge and is no longer simply being fed information but is instead responding to and interacting with that information.
    -- Educause Review (Feb 2000)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EducauseReview #Internet

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  16. Good judgement requires good information. Every imagined danger or adverse social trend is not as ghastly as it seems. Consciousness-raising can be truth-lowering. We fall prey to our fears and fantasies. We create synthetic truths from a blend of genuine evidence, popular prejudice and mass anxiety.
    -- Robert J. Samuelson (Newsweek)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertJSamuelson #Information #Judgement #Truth

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  17. A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection -- not an invitation for hypnosis.
    -- Umberto Eco

    #Wisdom #Quotes #UmbertoEco #Civilization #Democracy

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  18. The first indications of the intelligence of a ruler are given by the quality of the men around him. If they are capable and loyal, he should always be taken to be shrewd, because he was able to recognize their ability and retain their loyalty. But if they are mediocre and disloyal, a low estimate of him will never be mistaken, because the most important error he has made is to choose them.
    -- Niccolo Machiavelli

    #Wisdom #Quotes #NiccoloMachiavelli #Leadership

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  19. For isn't it in our daydreams that we acquire some sense of what we are about? Where we try on futures and practice our voices before committing ourselves to words or deeds? Daydreaming is where we go to cultivate the self, or, more likely, selves, out of the view and earshot of other people. Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others.
    -- Michael Pollan

    #Wisdom #Quotes #MichaelPollan #Daydreams

    #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  20. It's quite #foggy again here in North #Oxfordshire tonight, so I have been playing at creating a #WinterSolstice artificial #fogbow, #glory and #BrockenSpectre. Photos taken with a Canon 1100D with 10-18mm wide angled lens. #AtmosphericOptics #OpticalPhenomena #OpticalEffects #Fog #FoggyNight

  21. It's quite #foggy again here in North #Oxfordshire tonight, so I have been playing at creating a #WinterSolstice artificial #fogbow, #glory and #BrockenSpectre. Photos taken with a Canon 1100D with 10-18mm wide angled lens. #AtmosphericOptics #OpticalPhenomena #OpticalEffects #Fog #FoggyNight

  22. It's quite #foggy again here in North #Oxfordshire tonight, so I have been playing at creating a #WinterSolstice artificial #fogbow, #glory and #BrockenSpectre. Photos taken with a Canon 1100D with 10-18mm wide angled lens. #AtmosphericOptics #OpticalPhenomena #OpticalEffects #Fog #FoggyNight

  23. It's quite #foggy again here in North #Oxfordshire tonight, so I have been playing at creating a #WinterSolstice artificial #fogbow, #glory and #BrockenSpectre. Photos taken with a Canon 1100D with 10-18mm wide angled lens. #AtmosphericOptics #OpticalPhenomena #OpticalEffects #Fog #FoggyNight