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4.20 Life as a recursion
Arthur Schopenhauer answered: “What is the meaning of life?” by determining that one’s life reflects one’s will, and that the will (life) is an aimless, irrational, and painful drive. Salvation, deliverance, and escape from suffering are in aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others, and asceticism.
— Wikipedia
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2008.09.30 Tuesday
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If we were humble, nothing would change us — neither praise nor discouragement.
— Mother Teresa
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當你知道實情後, 你就會謙虛.
— Me
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2008.09.29 Monday
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To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.
— Zen proverbs
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2008.09.28 Sunday
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What you are
comes to you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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現在自己的一思一言一行, 決定了自己在生時和死後的狀況. — Me
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2008.09.27 Saturday
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Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
–Robert A. Heinlein
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“三個臭皮匠 一個諸葛亮”
是錯誤的.
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2008.09.26 Friday
4.18 Dale
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you afraid to do.” — Emerson
The way to develop self-confidence, he said, is to do the thing you fear to do and get a record of successful experiences behind you. — Lowell Thomas
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2008.09.25 Thursday
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To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
–Emerson
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The moments when you attain a goal and realize true perfection probably account for less than 2 percent of your lifetime, while the process of living and working toward your goals occupies the rest. If you look to perfection to supply your sense of success, you are discounting the other 98 percent of your life.
–Katz and Liu
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The journey is the destination.
當你到達目的地後, 你會發現, 你的最大收穫是你的旅程.
— Me
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2008.09.24 Wednesday
4.17.4 Influence
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When suggesting on how to write a successful book, John T. Reed wrote:
“At the Dale Carnegie public speaking class, which I highly recommend — they say anyone can make a good speech if he or she has earned the right to speak on the subject in question. How do you earn the right? By living through the subject or by doing extensive research on it — which is arguably another form of living through it. Same principle applies to how-to writing.”
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要寫到一些有用的文字, 方法只有一個: 曾經親歷其境.
— Me
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2008.09.23 Tuesday
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
— William James
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老師的主要責任是告訴學生
什麼可以省略,
什麼不可以.
— Me
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2008.09.22 Monday
4.17.2 Practice
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知易行難
是因為知得不夠詳細:
只知大方向
而不知道執行時所需要的技術細節.
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例一: 讀書
版本一:
知:
大方向: 要努力讀書
技術細節: 不清楚
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行:
往往提不起勁開始讀書.
開始溫習後又很易分心.
即使溫習了數小時也好像沒有溫似的.
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版本二:
知:
大方向: 要努力讀書
技術細節:
往往提不起勁開始讀書. (是不是每次計劃的溫書量太多, 嚇怕了自己?)
開始溫習後又很易分心. (是不是因為你的電腦就在書本的旁邊? 移走電腦到視線範圍以外行嗎?)
即使溫習了數小時也好像沒有溫似的. (為什麼要一次過溫數小時呢? 每次只溫兩小時行嗎? 如果一定要連續溫習五小時的話, 是不是一定要五小時也溫同一科呢? 中途可不可以加一點休息的時間?)
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行:
技術細節知得越詳細, 實行到計劃的機會越高.
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— Me
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2008.09.21 Sunday
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A：
人與人的關係，可能悲慘到什麼地步？
B：
你能想像得到的悲慘關係，世間都有；
你無法想像得到的悲慘關係，世間亦有。
沒有悲慘至極這回事。悲慘無極。
— Mr. Lee
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被朋友出賣, 屬正常.
被朋友遺棄, 屬自然定律.
可以難過, 但毋須傷心.
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有朋友無條件地對你好, 是奇遇.
有朋友在你有難時為你出頭, 是奇蹟.
要更加好好珍惜.
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你可以做到別人的真誠朋友嗎?
– Me
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2008.09.20 Saturday
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大學時, 有時候, 天文學會的組員遇見我時有這樣的反應:
“阿鈞呀!” (語氣就似見到外星人一樣.)
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去年和今年, 有幾位學生見到我時這樣說:
“達明呀!” (又是外星人語氣?!)
或者
“阿Sir, 見到你好開心呀!”
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上星期一, 到商場和以前同事吃午飯. 離開商場時, 遇見學生:
CWM: 阿Sir 呀!
接著, CSY很開心的走過來說: 好似見到明星呀.
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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
— Mother Teresa
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2008.09.19 Friday
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習慣一個人 沒有傷悲
— 李克勤一個人飛
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2008.09.18 Thursday
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All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.
~ Principia Discordia
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2008.09.17 Wednesday
4.17 Practice
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The difference between theory and practice is small in theory but big in practice.
係理論上, 理論上同實際上係無乜分別o既; 但係實際上, 理論上同實際上係有好大分別o既.
理論上, 理論上和實際上是沒有什麼分別的; 但實際上, 理論上和實際上是有很大分別的.
— Me, based on an existing quotation
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The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth.”
— Richard P. Feynman (The Feynman Lectures on Physics, 1963)
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大部分的人生道理聽了其實是沒有用的. 原因是大部分人也沒有做足以下四個步驟.
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4.17.1 Theory
4.17.2 Practice
4.17.3 Habit
4.17.4 Influence (夢幻版)
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2008.09.16 Tuesday
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無例子亦無人問.
以為想通的問題, 錯了, 再想…
以為想通的問題, 又錯, 再想…
以為想通的問題, 再錯, 再想…
以為想通的問題, 又再錯, 再想…
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時間無多,
有沒人可以救我?
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2008.09.15 Monday
4.16 Impossible
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If you want to imagine what the world is going to be like in the future,
don’t work for what’s possible now.
Start by imagining the impossible,
only then we even get close to a vision of our fantastic future.
— Gillian Anderson, Future Fantasic
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To be creative, think not what is possible, but what is impossible.
— My own modification.
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要有創意, 不要由可能的事情想起;
要有創意, 要先由不可能的事情想起.
— Translation by Me.
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2008.09.13 Sunday
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原來過得很快樂 只我一人未發覺
— 林夕
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2008.09.13 Saturday
4.15 Shaw
1. You see things as they are and ask, “Why?” I dream things as they never were and ask, “Why not?” — George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921)
2. Reasonable people adapt themselves to the envirnoment; unreasonable adapt envirnoment to themseleves. Therefore, all human progress are made by unreasonable people. — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
3. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Muriel Strode ( ? )
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2008.09.12 Friday
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
— Carl Jung
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人生中最重要的問題往往也是不能解決的.
那唯有把它們忘記, 好好生活.
當我們成長到某個程度, 讓那些問題即使仍在, 也不能再傷到我們.
— Translation by Me
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不能解決 唯有忘記
不能忘記 唯有置之不理
— Translation by Me
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2008.09.11 Thursday
Physics Town 
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