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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
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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
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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
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天界人間, 不是兩個地方.
— Me@2009.12.21
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2010.06.08 Tuesday
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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
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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
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教育一個孩子, 使他成材, 比拿一個諾貝爾獎更偉大.
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當然, 最好是有孩子, 又有諾貝爾獎.
— Me@2009.10.25
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2010.05.26 Wednesday
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
— Mark Twain
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2010.05.24 Monday
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps have never been seen.
— Robert Bresson
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2010.05.20 Thursday
迷離境界 3
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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Eden Philpotts
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2010.05.19 Wednesday
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
— Thomas Huxley
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2010.05.13 Thursday
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Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. It is rated as the best university of the Netherlands, 11th best university in Europe, and 52nd best in the world in the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
— Wikipedia on Utrecht University
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2010.05.06 Thursday
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The only thing more uncertain than the future is the past.
— Soviet proverb
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2010.05.05 Wednesday
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You don’t have to learn everything in order to know everything.
— Me@2010.04
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2010.05.02 Sunday
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Do research in order to get a PhD is a waste of time.
[Instead, you should] Go to study a PhD because you want to know real and practical physicists
in order to do real research and real teachings.
— Me@<2008
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2010.04.30 Friday
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17世紀，只有150萬人口的荷蘭，成為世界經濟中心和海上第一強國。
荷蘭人通過捕撈和加工鯡魚和海上貿易開始自己的致富之路。在與英格蘭的貿易競爭中，荷蘭人通過建造造價低、速度快的船隻以及良好的商業信用而逐漸佔據有利地位。為了解決開闢新航線的資金問題，荷蘭人進行一系列金融和商業上的創新。 1602 年，第一間股份公司荷蘭聯合東印度公司成立；1609年，第一個股票交易所成立，同年，阿姆斯特丹銀行建立，並第一次引入銀行信用。這些新的金融和商業體系，使荷蘭的財富快速增長。到了17世紀中葉，荷蘭的貿易額佔據佔到全世界總貿易額的一半。
— 大國崛起, 維基百科
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2010.04.28 Wednesday
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For many years, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the “Big Three” of science fiction.
During interviews, both in 1993 and 2004–2005, he stated that he did not believe in reincarnation, citing that there was no mechanism to make it possible, though he stated “I’m always paraphrasing J. B. S. Haldane: ‘The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we can imagine.‘”
— Wikipedia on Arthur C. Clarke
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2010.04.24 Saturday
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Wikipedia on History of the Netherlands
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2010.04.23 Friday
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Wikipedia on Kingdom of the Netherlands
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2010.04.20 Tuesday
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我最核心的興趣是:
1. 什麼是時間? What is Time? –> So I study Physics.
2. 什麼是心靈? What is Mind? –> So I study Psychology.
3. 什麼是自我? Who am I? –> So I study Philosophy.
以上是我十八歲時所想的。
— Me@2008.09.15, 2010.04.12
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2010.04.19 Monday
Physics Town 
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