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旅程

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The smallest possible step, 8

To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

– Emerson

The journey is the destination.

當你到達目的地後, 你會發現, 你的最大收穫是, 你的旅程.

– Me@2008.09.24

2011.03.09 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Be a miracle

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A single mom who’s working two jobs, and still finds time to take her son to soccer 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. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.

– God, Bruce Almighty

— Me@2009.12.10

2011.02.24 Thursday ACHK

Invention machine

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Koza was featured in Popular Science for his work on evolutionary programming that alters its own code to find far more complex solutions. The machine, which he calls the “invention machine”, has created antennae, circuits, and lenses, and has received a patent from the US Patent Office.

— Wikipedia on John Koza

2011.02.19 Saturday ACHK

Endless sea

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Teaching is not filling a vase, but lighting a fire.

-– Michel de Montaigne

Teaching is not filling a vase, but lightning a fire.

— Me@2005, 2010.01.05

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

2011.01.18 Tuesday ACHK

地球作業系統 1.3

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但是，即使不是「完全挑戰」，只是「嘗試挑戰」，要把你可以挑戰的那一百樣東西都「嘗試挑戰」的話，就已經十分麻煩。

（安：這是一個很有趣的講法。根據你的意思，一般人的「思考作業系統」，會令人生存到，但不會是上佳的「作業系統」。）

一般人的「思考作業系統」，會令人生存到，但不會令人快樂。

（安：這就解釋了為何這個地球的一般人是這樣的 —— 即使所處的現狀十分荒唐，他們仍然會視之為理所當然。）

我剛才所講的，就是他們的「苦衷」。

所以，我們應該主動看一些超凡的書籍、聽一些超凡的說話。超凡的人和書會提點我們，生活現況中的哪些東西，是最值得挑戰的。

— Me@2011.01.09

2011.01.09 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK 

去蕪存菁

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Managers exist to get furniture out of the way so the real talent can do brilliant work.

— Joel on Software

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

— Sherlock Holmes

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

I’m slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can’t motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

— Dilbert

For Michelangelo, the job of the sculptor was to free the forms that were already inside the stone.

He believed that every stone had a sculpture within it, and that the work of sculpting was simply a matter of chipping away all that was not a part of the statue.

— Wikipedia on Michelangelo

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

— Cyril Connolly

去蕪自然存菁

— Me@2010.10.25

2010.12.26 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK 

十年

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奇幻衝擊波 2.3

而且，有時，即使是一個簡單的意念，只要執行得透徹，都可以有鉅大的發展。例如：可樂公司的產品，主要是可樂。而可樂所建基的，只是一個意念：可樂秘方。

重點是，人其實可以隨時變成很勁（powerful）的。應該這樣說：人有隨時開始執行偉大計劃的能力。真正問題是，執行一個計劃，由開始到成功，需要很長的時間。而大部分人卻沒有那些必須的耐性。

正如 Joel Spolsky 所講，一個軟件要由開始面世，到發展成熟，需要十年的時間。製作上佳電腦軟件需要十年，製作上佳「人腦軟件」亦不可偷懶。一項才能，由開始學習，到發展成熟至可以「以它來長遠為生」，需要十年的時間。

人生中，大部分遊戲其實是「鬥耐性」。只要刪除「沒有耐性」這個缺點，大部人都可以有偉大的人生。另一方面看，當大部分地球人沒有耐性，而你卻有時，你就已經勝過他們一百萬倍。

— Me@2010.12.05

Researchers have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, telegraph operation, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology.

— Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

— Peter Norvig

2010.12.05 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK