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The American Scholar

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Emerson wrote in his speech “The American Scholar”: “We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; Divine  Soul which also inspires all men.” Emerson closed the essay by calling for a revolution in human consciousness to emerge from the new idealist philosophy:

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. … Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

— Wikipedia on Transcendentalism

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2010.09.07 Tuesday ACHK

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If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.

— Sir Isaac Newton

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

    * Source: Public Knowledge – Hal Abelson

如果你不站在巨人們的肩上的話，你只會被巨人們站在你的肩上。

— Me@2010.09.07

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（安：可能我對 Virtual Machine（虛擬機器）的理解還未準確。）

不要緊。你可以查閱《維基百科》。它可以令你「由無知變天才」。　

以前，Yahoo 本身沒有「文字搜索」的功能。她的文字搜索功能由其他公司提供。有一段時期，Yahoo 使用 Google 的「文字搜索」服務。那時，當你使用 Yahoo 搜尋器時，你會見到旁邊有一個標誌，上面寫著「Yahoo! Powered by Google」。「Powered by」的意思是「採用、建基於、由 … 驅動」。我覺得這個概念很有用。

例如，我當年 ALevel 時的 Pure Maths（純數學）水準比平均高。主要的原因是，我有一位極好的 Pure Maths 老師。他姓「程」。單憑我一己之力，Pure Maths 難以有大成。但是，如果我用「Me! Powered by 程老師」的話，我的 Pure Maths 功力就會高過一般人。

又例如，當年有李先生做我們的哲學老師，簡直是「奇遇」。單憑我一己之力，要讀好哲學的話，起碼要讀數百本書，花幾年時間，才可以略有所成。但是，如果我用「Me! Powered by 李先生」的話，除了最重要的幾本外，那數百本書也完全不用看。而且，在跟李先生學習的那三年中，我待人處世的功力多了五十年。

所以，雖然你現在的電腦知識，還未足夠令你完全了解何謂「Virtual Machine」，但是，如果你用「安! Powered by 維基百科」的話，你可以瞬間由「電腦平民」變成「電腦天才」。

— Me@2010.09.07

If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.

— Sir Isaac Newton

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