The difference between a company and a society is that, for a company, you can choose whom to hire; for a society, you may not be able to choose whom you have to bear.

— Me@2011.05.27

2014.03.17 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

The surest way to reveal one’s character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
     
— Abraham Lincoln

Power amplifies the effects of one’s character. 

— Me@2014-02-18 12:44:51 PM

2014.02.18 Tuesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

The so-called geeks hung out at the prison library, and real cons were loathe to step foot in the place, even though their behavior was ignorant. This attitude stems from their school days when any signs of intelligence were perceived as being part of the “system”.

— Prisons and Prison Life: What is it like to be a geek in a prison?

— Mark Conway

2013.12.14 Saturday ACHK

每個時代的人，都覺得自己的時代是「現代」。

每個時代的人，都不覺得自己的時代是「古代」。

— Me@2010.03.29

任何時代的人，都是當時有史以來，最先進的人類。

— Me@2013.10.11 02.27.10

2013.11.14 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

2013.11.09 Saturday ACHK

What you demand, you get. What you tolerate, you encourage.

— John T. Reed

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

— Edmund Burke 

沉默的好人，也許會變成邪惡的同盟。

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2013.10.13 Sunday ACHK

In a December 2005 interview with Simon Mayo on BBC Radio Five Live, Attenborough stated that he considers himself an agnostic. When asked whether his observation of the natural world has given him faith in a creator, he generally responds with some version of this story, making reference to the Loa loa parasitic worm:

My response is that when Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, [a worm] that’s going to make him blind. And [I ask them], ‘Are you telling me that the God you believe in, who you also say is an all-merciful God, who cares for each one of us individually, are you saying that God created this worm that can live in no other way than in an innocent child’s eyeball? Because that doesn’t seem to me to coincide with a God who’s full of mercy’. 

He has explained that he feels the evidence all over the planet clearly shows evolution to be the best way to explain the diversity of life, and that “as far as [he’s] concerned, if there is a supreme being[,] then he chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world.”

— Wikipedia on David Attenborough

2013.09.21 Saturday ACHK

Sometimes, even Mother Nature is unkind. 

有時，即使天地也無情。

— Me@2011.03.31

2013.09.16 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

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I’m the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don’t really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead. I have certainly wished I had killed myself when I was born.

In terms of effect on the world, it’s very good that I’ve lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn’t do it. But I sure wish I hadn’t had so much pain.

– Richard Stallman, inventor of the Copyleft

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2010.06.26 Saturday ACHK