#kinderhookcreek — Public Fediverse posts
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I'm so sick of hearing about the future. What is that? The future is just another crappy version of the present. It's some bribe people offer you to make you do what they want instead of what you want.
-- Cameron (Halt and Catch Fire) -
I'm so sick of hearing about the future. What is that? The future is just another crappy version of the present. It's some bribe people offer you to make you do what they want instead of what you want.
-- Cameron (Halt and Catch Fire) -
I'm so sick of hearing about the future. What is that? The future is just another crappy version of the present. It's some bribe people offer you to make you do what they want instead of what you want.
-- Cameron (Halt and Catch Fire) -
I'm so sick of hearing about the future. What is that? The future is just another crappy version of the present. It's some bribe people offer you to make you do what they want instead of what you want.
-- Cameron (Halt and Catch Fire) -
I'm so sick of hearing about the future. What is that? The future is just another crappy version of the present. It's some bribe people offer you to make you do what they want instead of what you want.
-- Cameron (Halt and Catch Fire) -
Science -- cosmology, evolution and especially the brain sciences -- is telling us that we have no privileged position in the universe and that our sense of having a private nonmaterial soul "watching the world" is really an illusion (as has long been emphasized by Eastern mystical traditions like Hinduism and Zen Buddhism). Once you realize that far from being a spectator, you are in fact part of the eternal ebb and flow of events in the cosmos, this realization is very liberating. Ultimately this idea also allows you to cultivate a certain humility -- the essence of all authentic religious experience.
-- V. S. Ramachandran -
Science -- cosmology, evolution and especially the brain sciences -- is telling us that we have no privileged position in the universe and that our sense of having a private nonmaterial soul "watching the world" is really an illusion (as has long been emphasized by Eastern mystical traditions like Hinduism and Zen Buddhism). Once you realize that far from being a spectator, you are in fact part of the eternal ebb and flow of events in the cosmos, this realization is very liberating. Ultimately this idea also allows you to cultivate a certain humility -- the essence of all authentic religious experience.
-- V. S. Ramachandran -
Science -- cosmology, evolution and especially the brain sciences -- is telling us that we have no privileged position in the universe and that our sense of having a private nonmaterial soul "watching the world" is really an illusion (as has long been emphasized by Eastern mystical traditions like Hinduism and Zen Buddhism). Once you realize that far from being a spectator, you are in fact part of the eternal ebb and flow of events in the cosmos, this realization is very liberating. Ultimately this idea also allows you to cultivate a certain humility -- the essence of all authentic religious experience.
-- V. S. Ramachandran -
Science -- cosmology, evolution and especially the brain sciences -- is telling us that we have no privileged position in the universe and that our sense of having a private nonmaterial soul "watching the world" is really an illusion (as has long been emphasized by Eastern mystical traditions like Hinduism and Zen Buddhism). Once you realize that far from being a spectator, you are in fact part of the eternal ebb and flow of events in the cosmos, this realization is very liberating. Ultimately this idea also allows you to cultivate a certain humility -- the essence of all authentic religious experience.
-- V. S. Ramachandran -
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana -
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana -
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana -
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana -
One shudders at the notion that the Internet could become the least common denominator -- where 'decent' is defined by the Americans, and 'politically correct' by the Chinese.
-- Jacques Gaillot -
One shudders at the notion that the Internet could become the least common denominator -- where 'decent' is defined by the Americans, and 'politically correct' by the Chinese.
-- Jacques Gaillot -
One shudders at the notion that the Internet could become the least common denominator -- where 'decent' is defined by the Americans, and 'politically correct' by the Chinese.
-- Jacques Gaillot -
One shudders at the notion that the Internet could become the least common denominator -- where 'decent' is defined by the Americans, and 'politically correct' by the Chinese.
-- Jacques Gaillot -
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
-- Hermann Hesse -
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules.
-- Frank Zappa -
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
-- Andy Warhol (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol) -
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-- Andy Rooney -
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Experience #Observation #Reason #Science
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Everything we know is only some kind of approximation.
-- Richard Feynman -
Everything we know is only some kind of approximation.
-- Richard Feynman -
Everything we know is only some kind of approximation.
-- Richard Feynman -
Everything we know is only some kind of approximation.
-- Richard Feynman -
Everything we know is only some kind of approximation.
-- Richard Feynman -
If people are boasting that they use the best tools, you can figure that they can't find any competitive advantage to using those tools, or else they wouldn't be presenting them as a competitive advantage.
-- Dave Winer -
The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.
-- Marshall McLuhan (Understanding Media (1964)) -
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.
-- Esther Dyson -
Luck is the residue of design.
-- Branch Rickey -
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
The subjects that were dearest to the examiners were almost invariably those I fancied least... I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not to well in examinations.
-- Winston Churchill⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WinstonChurchill #Education #Examinations
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The subjects that were dearest to the examiners were almost invariably those I fancied least... I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not to well in examinations.
-- Winston Churchill⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WinstonChurchill #Education #Examinations
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The subjects that were dearest to the examiners were almost invariably those I fancied least... I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not to well in examinations.
-- Winston Churchill⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WinstonChurchill #Education #Examinations
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The subjects that were dearest to the examiners were almost invariably those I fancied least... I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not to well in examinations.
-- Winston Churchill⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WinstonChurchill #Education #Examinations
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The subjects that were dearest to the examiners were almost invariably those I fancied least... I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not to well in examinations.
-- Winston Churchill⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WinstonChurchill #Education #Examinations
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A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.
-- Edward deBono -
The future will be better tomorrow.
-- Dan Quayle -
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
-- James Baldwin -
The role of the scientist is to search for the truth, not attempt to prove a belief. In Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, the young wanderer, Govinda, is cautioned not to go looking for something but rather to find what is there ("... as a result of your seeking you cannot find"). Science has strict processes for judging what constitutes knowledge. An individual's musings constitute only the beginning, the creation of hypotheses. Testing of hypotheses, followed by peers' careful evaluation and rigorous critiques, may ultimately lead to theories. A scientific theory is not "just" a theory; it represents a very high level of knowledge acquisition. Religious belief is different.
-- Philip B. Carter (American Scientist (May 2007))⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PhilipBCarter #Belief #Religion #Science #Truth
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While other nations have social safety nets, the U.S. chooses to rely on women.
-- Jessica Calarco -
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-- Oscar Wilde -
One could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Cynicism #Lies #Politics #Totalitarianism
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Our obsessions with history and prophecy perhaps reflect an inability to comprehend the implications of geological time....Past and future require certain limitations and symmetries to be meaningful -- there must be a plot or at least a story. But time is really not much like a story. It is more like an ocean current that rises from imperfectly perceived depths and flows into unseen distances.
-- David Rains Wallace (Idle Weeds) -
Stupidity is knowing the truth, but still believing the lies. And that is more infectious than any other disease.
-- Richard Feynman -
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
-- Bertrand Russell -
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein