Category Archives: amaths-wars

Twenty-eight

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… they are big children all their life long — a kind of intermediate stage between the child and the full-grown man, who is man in the strict sense of the word.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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2010.05.31 Monday ACHK

Gift 2

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I think it’s because humor is related to strength. To have a sense of humor is to be strong: to keep one’s sense of humor is to shrug off misfortunes, and to lose one’s sense of humor is to be wounded by them. And so the mark– or at least the prerogative– of strength is not to take oneself too seriously.

— Paul Graham

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2010.05.30 Sunday ACHK

Good teacher 2

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Bad teacher 2

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The answer to the paradox, I think, is that you have to design for the user, but you have to design what the user needs, not simply what he says he wants. It’s much like being a doctor. You can’t just treat a patient’s symptoms. When a patient tells you his symptoms, you have to figure out what’s actually wrong with him, and treat that.

— Paul Graham

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2010.05.29 Saturday ACHK

Genius 2

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All children are born geniuses;

9999 out of every 10000 are swiftly,

inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

— Buckminster Fuller

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The way to be a genius is to REALIZE that you are already one

as long as you can keep your child-self

against all the evils in the world.

— Me@2010.01.01

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2010.05.28 Friday copyright ACHK

Mistakes 4

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* An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

o The Lightness of Being – Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces, Basic Books 2008, chapter 1, p. 12

— Frank Wilczek, American physicist and Nobel laureate (2004)

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2010.05.27 Thursday ACHK

Evil systems

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You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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2010.05.25 Tuesday ACHK

SINGLE 3

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Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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我追求最高貴的感情.   愛情不是最高貴的感情.

愛情是一種利害關係,

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除非, 雙方也是人格完整的人.

— Me@2009.10.18 – 2009.10.20

— Me@2010.05.22

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2010.05.23 Sunday copyright ACHK

魔間傳奇

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I Am Legend (1954)

* Sometimes he had indulged in daydreams about finding someone. More often, though, he had tried to adjust to what he sincerely believed was the inevitable — that he was actually the only one left in the world. At least in as much of the world as he could ever hope to know.

— Richard Matheson

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2010.05.21 Friday ACHK

Negative lessons

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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

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2010.05.17 Monday ACHK

中道 3

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Middle way 3

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Thus, in Theravada Buddhist soteriology, there is neither a permanent self nor complete annihilation of the ‘person’ at death; there is only the arising and ceasing of causally related phenomena.

— Wikipedia on Middle Way

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2010.05.16 Sunday ACHK

Information should be free

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I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By ‘free’ I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one’s own uses… When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving.

— Richard Stallman 1990

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2010.05.15 Saturday ACHK