人格堤壩 4.2.1

這段改篇自 2010 年 4 月 1 日的對話。

記住,千萬不要說假話,除非遇上極端的情形。「極端的情形」是指「如果當時不立刻直接說假話,別人或自己就會受到嚴重的傷害」。但是,既然稱得上是「極端的情形」,即是很少會發生。所以,在絕大部分情況下,你是不需要說假話的。

(CN:但是,你這麼「坦白」,有時會傷害到別人。)

你誤會了我的意思。「不說假話」不代表「把所有真話也說出來」。

I do always mean what I say but not always say what I mean.

我的意思是,凡是出於我口中的,都會是真話(,除非遇上極端的情形)。但是,我不一定把所有真話都講出來,因為,把所有真話都講出來的話,大部分情況下,都會傷害到別人。

(注意,這個方法不可以應用於法庭,因為在法庭作證時,如果只把事實的部分,而不把事實的全部說出來的話,即屬刑事罪行。)

還有,即使是真話,大部分情況下,都會有超過一種表達方式。我會選擇一個對各方最有利的。 

— Me@2011.01.14

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White hole 2

Recent speculations

A more recently proposed view of black holes might be interpreted as shedding some light on the nature of classical white holes. Some researchers proposed that when a black hole forms, a big bang occurs at the core, which creates a new universe that expands into extra dimensions outside of the parent universe. See also Fecund universes.

The initial feeding of matter from the parent universe’s black hole and the expansion that follows in the new universe might be thought of as a cosmological type of white hole. Unlike traditional white holes, this type of white hole would not be localized in space in the new universe, and its horizon would have to be identified with the cosmological horizon.

— Wikipedia on White hole

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傻瓜

人生,是一個由「傻仔」變「傻佬」的過程。

— Me@2011.01.14

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Evil begets stupidity

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But the other reason programmers are fussy, I think, is that evil begets stupidity. An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work. And it’s not fun for a smart person to work in a place where the best ideas aren’t the ones that win. I think the reason Google embraced “Don’t be evil” so eagerly was not so much to impress the outside world as to inoculate themselves against arrogance.

— Paul Graham

Perhaps worst of all, Microsoft is no longer considered the cool or cutting-edge place to work. There has been a steady exit of its best and brightest.

Not everything that has gone wrong at Microsoft is due to internecine warfare. Part of the problem is a historic preference to develop (highly profitable) software without undertaking (highly risky) hardware.

It’s not an accident that almost all the executives in charge of Microsoft’s music, e-books, phone, online, search and tablet efforts over the past decade have left.

— Microsoft’s Creative Destruction, By Dick Brass, New York Times

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