Teaching is not filling a vase, but lighting a fire.
-– Michel de Montaigne
Teaching is not filling a vase, but lightning a fire.
— Me@2005, 2010.01.05
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
— Antoine de Saint Exupery
2011.01.18 Tuesday ACHK
1. Always make new mistakes. — Esther Dyson
2. Always make new mistakes. — Esther Dyson
3. There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures. — Freeman Dyson
4. If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away. — Linus Pauling
5. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle
— Me@2008.09.06
2011.01.05 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
— Thomas Watson
2011.01.04 Tuesday ACHK
演員在劇中可以說話流利的原因是，
那些 NG 鏡頭全部被刪去。
— Me@2010.12.31
Blooper
A blooper is a short sequence of a film or video production, usually a deleted scene, containing a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew. These bloopers, or outtakes as they are also called, are often the subject of television shows or are occasionally revealed during the credit sequence at the end of comedy movies.
— Wikipedia on Blooper
2011.01.03 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
你所追求的東西，可能一直在你身邊，只是你沒有留意。
— Me@2009.04.05
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2011.01.02 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Buddha
= the enlightened one
= 開悟的人
— Me@2010.07.22
Buddha is the one who has realized that he already has (almost) everything he wants.
— Me@2007
2010.12.29 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Managers exist to get furniture out of the way so the real talent can do brilliant work.
— Joel on Software
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
— Sherlock Holmes
But negative lessons are just as valuable as positive ones. Perhaps even more valuable: it’s hard to repeat a brilliant performance, but it’s straightforward to avoid errors.
— Paul Graham
I’m slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can’t motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
— Dilbert
For Michelangelo, the job of the sculptor was to free the forms that were already inside the stone.
He believed that every stone had a sculpture within it, and that the work of sculpting was simply a matter of chipping away all that was not a part of the statue.
— Wikipedia on Michelangelo
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
— Cyril Connolly
去蕪自然存菁
— Me@2010.10.25
2010.12.26 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
失敗的次數無論有多少，都是有限數；但是，由失敗過程所吸收的經驗所帶來的成功所達致的成果，卻可以使用無限次。
（安：這一點在人生攻略中，至關重要。這一點可以引申很多東西。一百樣東西中，失敗了九十九樣，只成功了一樣，遠遠好過你害怕失敗，什麼都要肯定成功才嘗試。）
「肯定成功」的，就不叫做「嘗試」。所以，「什麼都要肯定成功才嘗試」，即是「什麼新的東西都不做」，結果，會令你從來沒有失敗，又沒有成功，白白虛度了一生。
（安：大部分人也是這樣的。）
我的講法，應該作一點修正，因為我見過一些人，不加思索就做決定。他們會犯一些原本只要事先思考一下，就可以避免的錯誤；而失敗後又沒有能力或者沒有意圖承擔後果。那些壞人，成功的話就把功勞留給自己；失敗的話就把責任推給別人。
正確的態度，是用一個有系統，而又負責任的方法去「失敗」。你應該在事前用盡你當時可以得到的資料，來減輕犯錯的機會，降低潛在失敗所帶來的損失。
同時，你又要知道，即是你那麼小心，失敗的機會仍然會很大，因為「你當時可以得到的所有資料」，往往遠少於「成功所需要的所有資料」。所以，你嘗試新東西時，一定要有強大的心理準備，充足的財政預算，來自己承擔後果。
— Me@2010.12.19
2010.12.21 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
如果你有系統地失敗，你的「失敗」，就是邁向「成功」的必須階梯。
「有系統地失敗」的意思是：
1. 事先你要知道，每次失敗的後果，是你能夠承受的；
2. 每次失敗的方法，相對於全人類來說，都要是全新的。凡是自己或別人犯過的錯誤，都不可以再犯；
3. 失敗的次數要超級多；
4. 失敗的速度要神奇高。
自己犯過的錯誤，相當於自己走過的梯級，不應再走。同理，別人犯過的錯誤，就是自己可以引以為鑑的經驗，相當於現成可用的升降機。不用的話，你就錯失高速省略大量梯級的機會。
— Me@2010.12.19
2010.12.19 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
Always make new mistakes, 2.3
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（安：你可不可以重新解釋，什麼是「對自己的了解」？什麼是「對自然定律的了解」？）
「對自己的了解」的意思是，要準確描述「自己什麼可以做到，什麼不可以」。
對於一件事，「做到」的話，可以做到什麼程度？「做不到」的話，是不是百分百，完全做不到？還是其實可以，做到一點？又或者，是否可以通過訓練，令自己由「做不到」，變成「做到」呢？
「對自然定律的了解」的意思是，要知道「你大部分嘗試的新東西，一定會失敗」。
這句好像自相矛盾，因為同一句有「大部分」，又有「一定」。應該這樣說：「你嘗試的新東西中，大部分會失敗。」但是，只要有一次成功，你就可以把成果循環再用，無限複製。
失敗的次數無論有多少，都是有限數；但是，由失敗過程所吸收的經驗，所帶來的成功，所達致的成果，卻可以使用無限次。
— Me@2010.12.17
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2010.12.17 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
故事連線 1.3
我們在大約 2003 年，講過類似的現象。
假設，每日我也做 10 件事。 10 天後，我就做了 100 件事。即使在大部分情況下，我做事不是刻意的，由於做了的事情不少，加上組合太多，我在事後寫自傳時，總可以找到一些貌似有意思的事件連線，令到讀者以為我事先神機妙算，有詳盡的計劃。例如，第一天的第 2 件事，引發第二天的第 5 件事；第二天的第 5 件事，導致第三天的第 1 件事；如此類推。
（安：很多傳記作者，也是這樣神化了傳記主角。）
物理學家 Richard Feynman（費曼）一生中有三個偉大的物理成就。曾經有學生問他：「為什麼你可以多次在適當的時候，選擇適當的物理問題，然後提出適當的解決方案？」
Richard Feynman 給予那個學生，一個完美的答案：「我不知道。」
— Me@2010.11.12
2010.11.12 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
— Sherlock Holmes
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2009.06.27 Saturday
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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
For Michelangelo, the job of the sculptor was to free the forms that were already inside the stone.
He believed that every stone had a sculpture within it, and that the work of sculpting was simply a matter of chipping away all that was not a part of the statue.
— Wikipedia
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2008.03.01 Saturday
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
— The Dilbert Principle
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2007.09.23 Sunday CHK2
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Think instead of react. Take frequent breaks and strive to constantly eliminate instead of organize. Create not-to-do lists and cancel, fire, subtract, and eliminate, eliminate, eliminate. If you remove all the static and distraction, priorities become clear, execution becomes a one-item to-do list, and time management isn’t even necessary. Honestly, this is the holy grail.
— Timothy Ferriss
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2007.06.14 CHK2
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing more to take away.”
Physics Town 