這段改篇自 2010 年 4 月 8 日的對話。
我年輕時有極嚴重的情緒病。「唯有經過地獄的磨難，才有創造天堂的力量。」（改篇自尼采）那我有什麼「創造天堂的力量」呢？
我可以幫人解決心理問題。很多時，當有學生對我訴說讀書的困難時，我都發現他所謂的「讀書困難」，其實是情緒疾病和心理問題。而那些麻煩往往是我當年遇過的，所以我可以詳細描述解決方法：
「你的問題其實是這個。你可以用這個方法。第一步是這樣。第二步是那樣… 有八成機會會成功。不行的話，你可以用這個後備計劃 …」
— Me@2010.12.01
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Prehistory
A few decades before modern computers were invented, the mathematician Alonzo Church developed a language called the lambda calculus. He intended it as a tool for investigating the foundations of mathematics. The first person to realize the practical connection between programming and the lambda calculus was John McCarthy, who created Lisp in 1958.
— Real World Haskell
— by Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen
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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
— Raymond Hull
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Treat your colleagues as friends. I apply the same basic rules to all my relationships, business and personal. I interact with my bosses and other colleagues exactly the same way I interact with friends. I’m sociable and laid back, I joke around, I’m honest, and if you’re being stupid I’ll let you know. This isn’t just some clever trick I use to make people like me. I just have a lot more fun without the smoke and mirrors that “professionalism” brings. And as a lot of bosses will tell you, it’s a lot harder to fire someone you like.
— How to Find Your Dream Job
— by Brad Bollenbach
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
— Marianne Williamson
— [emphasis mine] Me@2010.11.30
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There are currently some problems that hinder a unified comprehension of Physics. Lee Smolin (in The Trouble with Physics, 2006) has listed 5 major problems:
1. Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory.
2. Resolve the problems in the foundations of quantum mechanics.
3. Determine whether or not the various particles and forces can be unified in a theory that explains them all as manifestations of a single, fundamental entity.
4. Explain how the values of the free constants in the standard model of particle physics are chosen in nature.
5. Explain dark matter and dark energy.
— Wikipedia
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Physics Town 