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Clarke’s three laws 4

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* Clarke’s Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea — in science, politics, art, or whatever — seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:

(1) “It’s completely impossible — don’t waste my time”;
(2) “It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing”;
(3) “I said it was a good idea all along.”

— The Promise of Space (1968); This and similar statements attributed to Mahatma Gandhi and J. B. S. Haldane may ultimately be derived from a statement attibuted to Arthur Schopenhauer:

All truth passes through three stages.

First it is ridiculed.
Second it is violently opposed.
And third it is accepted as self-evident.

— As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson, Madge Micheels-Cyrus, p. 244

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2010.06.21 Monday ACHK

Clarke’s three laws 3

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Arthur C. Clarke famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”  But in my house, any sufficiently advanced technology is broken, and no one knows how to fix it.

— Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

— Scott Adams

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2010.06.20 Sunday ACHK

Job: Meaning of Life 2

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Your life would have no meaning if you just stay at home, using all the time thinking about the meaning of life.

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Every day, we face thousands of problems.

In order to survive, we have to create thousands of solutions to those thousands of problems.

Some of your solutions are not only useful for yourself,

but also useful for a lot of others.

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Why not publish them?

— Me@2010.02.22

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2010.06.19 Saturday copyright ACHK

Six Principles for Making New Things

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Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

If you work on overlooked problems, you’re more likely to discover new things, because you have less competition. If you deliver solutions informally, you (a) save all the effort you would have had to expend to make them look impressive, and (b) avoid the danger of fooling yourself as well as your audience. And if you release a crude version 1 then iterate, your solution can benefit from the imagination of nature, which, as Feynman pointed out, is more powerful than your own.

— Paul Graham

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2010.06.18 Friday ACHK

歷史 2

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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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歷史，是凝固了的時間。

— Me@2010.06.16

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2010.06.17 Thursday copyright ACHK

Russell | Einstein

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

* Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position (19 March 1940).

— Albert Einstein

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2010.06.15 Tuesday ACHK

Pianist

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An expert pianist can play notes faster than the brain can send signals to his hand. Likewise an artist, after a while, can make visual perception flow in through his eye and out through his hand as automatically as someone tapping his foot to a beat.

— Paul Graham

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2010.06.12 Saturday ACHK

Startup

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The best way to come up with startup ideas is to ask yourself the question:

what do you wish someone would make for you?

— Paul Graham

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2010.06.10 Thursday ACHK

天空堤壩 6

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友情方面，你可以選擇，只要對方最好的優點；
愛情方面，你不可以選擇，不要對方最差的缺點。

–- Me@2010.06.01

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朋友，只需接受部分；
情人，卻需接受全部。

— Me@2010.06.07

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2010.06.09 Wednesday copyright ACHK

Stuff

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Another way to resist acquiring stuff is to think of the overall cost of owning it. The purchase price is just the beginning. You’re going to have to think about that thing for years — perhaps for the rest of your life. Every thing you own takes energy away from you. Some give more than they take. Those are the only things worth having.

— Paul Graham

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2010.06.07 Monday ACHK

Fixed stars

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* Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. A meteor makes a striking effect for a moment. You look up and cry “There!” and it is gone forever. Planets and wandering stars last a much longer time. They often outshine the fixed stars and are confounded by them by the inexperienced; but this only because they are near. It is not long before they must yield their place; nay, the light they give is reflected only, and the sphere of their influence is confined to their orbit — their contemporaries. Their path is one of change and movement, and with the circuit of a few years their tale is told. Fixed stars are the only ones that are constant; their position in the firmament is secure; they shine with a light of their own; their effect today is the same as it was yesterday, because, having no parallax, their appearance does not alter with a difference in our standpoint. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.

o Vol. 2 “The Art of Literature” as translated in Essays and Aphorisms (1970), as translated by R. J. Hollingdale

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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2010.06.06 Sunday ACHK

傷逝 5

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2010.06.04 Friday ACHK

天空堤壩 5

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友情方面，你可以選擇，只要對方的優點；
愛情方面，你不可以選擇，不要對方的缺點。

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友情方面，你可以選擇，只要對方最好的優點；
愛情方面，你不可以選擇，不要對方最差的缺點。

— Me@2010.06.01

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2010.06.03 Thursday copyright ACHK

天空堤壩 3

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才能方面，一個太陽可以照亮整個天空；

品德方面，一條裂縫可以摧毀整個堤壩。

–- Me@2010.03.06

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進攻方面，一個優點就可以導致成功；

防守方面，一個缺點就可以導致失敗。

— Me@2010.06.01

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2010.06.02 Wednesday copyright ACHK