Category Archives: amaths-wars

Fear of failure

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Fear of failure is an extraordinarily powerful force. Usually it prevents people from starting things, but once you publish some definite ambition, it switches directions and starts working in your favor.

— Paul Graham

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2010.02.19 Friday ACHK

Useless

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

— Peter F. Drucker

當你花很多時間做一件無用的事情，無用的事情仍然是無用的事情。

— Me@2010.02.06

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2010.02.18 Thursday copyright ACHK

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The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do — in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts.

— Paul Graham

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2010.02.16 Tuesday ACHK

The Open Cage

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Have you ever noticed that when animals are let out of cages, they don’t always realize at first that the door’s open? Often they have to be poked with a stick to get them out. Something similar happened with blogs. People could have been publishing online in 1995, and yet blogging has only really taken off in the last couple years. … it just took eight years for everyone to realize the cage was open.

— Paul Graham

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2010.02.11 Thursday ACHK

Information Age

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Moore’s law has made hardware cheap; open source has made software free; the web has made marketing and distribution free; and more powerful programming languages mean development teams can be smaller.

— Paul Graham

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2010.02.07 Sunday ACHK

Apple II

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The Apple II really started the whole gaming industry, because it was the first time a computer had been built with sound, paddles, color, graphics—all the things for games. And it was really so that I could implement Breakout in software.

— Steve Wozniak, Founders at Work

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2010.02.02 Tuesday ACHK

Robot Wisdom

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The traditional ideal:
A world ruled by wise, loving, responsible elders

The present reality:
A world under the thumbs of utterly cynical predators

The strategic analysis:
Their weak point is their need to rationalize their acts, by sophistries

The radical proposal:
Create a computer model of the human predicament, that can unflinchingly put the lie to their rationalizations (ie: Robot Wisdom)

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— Robot Wisdom, Jorn Barger

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2010.02.01 Monday ACHK