#kinderhookcreek — Public Fediverse posts
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
-- Philip K. Dick -
Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?
-- Walt Kelly (Preface to The Incomplete Pogo) -
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
-- Samuel Johnson -
One learns not by a photographic copying of things shown, but by an internal drama imitative of the action witnessed. When the instructor gropes for a word, corrects himself, interjects a comment or an analogy not directly called for, he gives a spectacle of man thinking which no slick film or televised show will provide.
-- Jacques Barzun -
Blocking extremists doesn't create an intellectual bubble, it prevents intellectual bubbles. Tribalism is what creates bubbles.
-- Noah Smith (@noahpinion)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NoahSmith #Extremists #Intellectuals #Tribalism
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Any claim of revelation is outrageous. It presumes that God exists, that God speaks and all is not lost when human beings translate that speech into ordinary language.
-- Stephen Prothero (WSJ Book Review (Oct 2, 2009)) -
Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.
-- Anonymous -
Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime.
-- David Leinweber -
Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.
-- Stephen Jay Gould -
It's funny that people are concerned about being exposed to a naked body on the Internet, but they're not concerned about the ramifications of being exposed to this onslaught of commercialism from an early age and its impact on the value systems of children.
-- Karen G. Schneider (librarian) -
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
-- Anonymous -
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
-- Robert Byrne -
If [the public] wants to benefit from real medical knowledge, they should also contribute to it.
-- Julian Tudor Hart -
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
-- Goethe -
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways that are deeply influenced by the particular features of the tongue that we speak. The second is that we are all the same--that we can share the same broad and narrow kinds of feelings, information, understandings, and so forth. Without both of these suppositions, translation could not exist. Nor could anything we would like to call social life. Translation is another name for the human condition.
-- David Bellos (Is That a Fish in Your Ear?)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidBellos #Knowledge #TheHumanCondition #Translation
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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) -
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 -
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 -
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