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The second theme is concerned explicitly with technology. It is a law of life in the magic city that if you wish for anything you can have it. But with this law goes a special rule about machines. If anyone wishes for a piece of machinery, he is compelled to keep it and go on using it for the rest of his life.
— Disturbing the Universe, p.4
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2009.12.21 Monday
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10. If you forget the first nine suggestions, just focus on genuinely helping people, and the rest will take care of itself.
— How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog), by Steve Pavlina
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2009.12.20 Sunday
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There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have experienced catastrophic hard drive failure, and those who will experience catastrophic hard drive failure.
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2009.12.19 Saturday
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The less you try to “stay loose” and open to anything,
the more precisely you define your skills
with Data/Information and/or People and/or Things in detail
and at the highest level you legitimately can claim,
the more likely you are to find a job.
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– What color is your parachute? 2005 Edition p.143 [Bold letters are mine]
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The more key words you type into Google,
the more likely you get the result you really want.
— Me@2009.12.12
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2009.12.18 Friday
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A friend was telling me about some job interviews she went on. She enjoyed them.
One approach is to be reactive, to sit where you’re supposed to sit, have your resume appear just so, wear what you’re supposed to wear and answer each and every question in the safe and secure way.
The other approach is to put on a show. To be in charge, to lead.
Some bosses don’t want to hire people who have a vision, a personality and a shtick. That’s okay. You don’t want to work for them anyway.
— Seth Godin
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2009.12.17 Thursday
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Physics is a system of approximations.
Physics is a system of ignoring mathematics effectively.
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Mathematics should be as much as necessary, as little as possible.
— Me@2009.12.15
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2009.12.16 Wednesday
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* There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more managable size.
* Most people yearn for something exceptional, something so inspiring that they’d want to risk everything for that passion, but few would act on it. It was very powerful and intoxicating to be around someone so alive.
— Susan Orlean
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2009.12.15 Tuesday
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Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it.
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So, it takes a long time to write a good program, but when it’s done, it’s done.
Make a ten year plan. Make sure you can survive for 10 years, because the software products that bring in a billion dollars a year all took that long.
Good software, like wine, takes time.
— Joel Spolsky
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2009.12.14 Monday
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青春是不可恃的。
人人都有青春，如果沒有夭折的話；
人人都會失去青春，如果平安大吉的話。
— Mr Lee
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2009.12.13 Sunday
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The secret to being the best in the world is to make the ‘world’ smaller.
— Seth Godin
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2009.12.12 Saturday
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基於事實
出於真心
— Me@2009.12.10
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2009.12.11 Friday
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A single mom who’s working two jobs and still finds time to take her son to practice, that’s a miracle. A teenager who says ‘no’ to drugs and ‘yes’ to an education, that’s a miracle. People want me to do everything for them. What they don’t realize is they have the power. Want see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.
— God, Bruce Almighty
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2009.12.10 Thursday
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說話不流利是因為想同一時間講超過一個字.
做事不暢順是因為想同一時間做超過一件事.
— Me@2009.12.09
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2009.12.09 Wednesday
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Be always ready.
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2009.12.08 Tuesday
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Other artists understand that they need to see the edges of the box if they’re going to create work that lasts.
No fence, no art.
— Seth Godin
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2009.12.07 Monday
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「原色」並非是一種物理概念，反倒是一種生物學的概念，是基於人的肉眼對於光線的生理作用。
有些物種的眼球具有四種不同的「感光體」，例如許多鳥類及有袋動物都屬於這類生物，甚至於有人提出部分女性人類的眼球也具有第四種感光體，除了紅綠藍之外還多了黃色。另一方面，大多數的哺乳動物都是屬於「雙色感光體生物」，牠們的眼球只有兩種感光體。
— 維基百科
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Primary colors are not a fundamental property of light but are often related to the physiological response of the eye to light.
Many birds and marsupials are tetrachromats, and it has been suggested that some human females are tetrachromats as well, having an extra variant version of the long-wave (L) cone type.
— Wikipedia on Primary color
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2009.12.06 Sunday
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Time is a great teacher but it kills all its students.
— H. Berlioz
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2009.12.05 Saturday
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Give me a million dollars and I’ll figure out what to do. But it’s harder than it looks. Constraints give your life shape. Remove them and most people have no idea what to do: look at what happens to those who win lotteries or inherit money.
— How to do what you love, by Paul Graham
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2009.12.04 Friday
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
— Carl Jung
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2009.12.03 Thursday
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Emerson presupposes that the mind is initially subject to an unhappy nonconformism. However, “Self-Reliance” is not anti-society or anti-community. Instead, Emerson advocates self-reliance as a starting point, not as a goal.
— Wikipedia
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2009.12.02 Wednesday
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