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永恆價值 1.1

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這段改編自 2010 年 4 月 3 日的對話。

（安：我現在的那份工作，內容沒有什麼意義；好像在不斷大規模地，浪費著自己的生命似的。但是，在我現在的心目中，又暫時想像不到，其他有什麼工作是有意義的，而又值得我去追求。）

那樣，兩害取其輕之下，為了保障你的經濟生命安全，你就應該保留現在的那份工作，毋須想太多。

（安：但是，我又過得十分不開心。試想想，每星期有五天是工作天，而每一工作天的大部分時間，我存在於工作的環境之中。再加上我還有幾十年才退休。我十分不希望，我大部分的人生，就那樣荒唐地度過。）

— Me@2013.05.28

2013.05.29 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Prayer 2.2

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Spinoza

Wikipedia:
在倫理學上，斯賓諾莎認為，一個人只要受制於外在的影響，他就是處於奴役狀態，而只要和上帝達成一致，人們就不再受制於這種影響，而能獲得相對的自由，也因此擺脫恐懼。

斯賓諾莎還主張無知是一切罪惡的根源。

Wikipedia:
斯賓諾莎還認為上帝是每件事的「內在因」，上帝通過自然法則來主宰世界，所以物質世界中發生的每一件事都有其必然性；世界上只有上帝是擁有完全自由的，而人雖可以試圖去除外在的束縛，卻永遠無法獲得自由意志。如果我們能夠將事情看作是必然的，那麼我們就愈容易與上帝合為一體。因此，斯賓諾莎提出我們應該「在永恆的相下」（sub specie aeternitatis）看事情。

Russell’s History of Western Philosophy, on Spinoza:
Only ignorance makes us think that we can alter the future;
what will be will be,
and the future is as unalterably fixed as the past.

2007.07.05 CHK2

2013.05.27 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

恆心無用 1.2

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Allow no exceptions 2.2 | 活在當下 3.2 | 魚目混珠 5.2

這段改編自 2010 年 7 月 8 日的對話。

所以，我並不是叫你有恆心，而是要你創作一些特別的方法，令到你自己，無論有沒有恆心，也能妥善完成任務。例如，你們今次因為什麼，而導致沒有依照原訂計劃，閱讀英文書？

（CSY：其實我有看少少。但是，這陣子我剛好有其他要事，剩下來閱讀的時間不多。再加上閱讀時，我的睡意正濃，所以沒有把書看下去。）

我上次有沒有講過，解決這類問題的那三個字？

（CSY：有呀：「Allow no exceptions.」（不容有例外。））

但是，你所執行的，反而是「always allow exceptions」（總是有例外），當然不能成事。

— Me@2013.05.25

2013.05.25 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Prayer 2

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In what prayers do men allow themselves! That which they call a holy office is not so much as brave and manly. Prayer looks abroad and asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — any thing less than all good, — is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

2008.03.12 Wednesday CHK2

Emacs, 2

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Nice to see Emacs getting a bit of press recently. I’ve used it for almost 20 years now and it dominates my time at the keyboard. It isn’t perfect and I’m reluctant to recommend it but I wouldn’t want to be without it. Let me explain.

The best thing about Emacs is that it can do everything (including the things it can’t do yet). The worst thing about Emacs is finding out how it does anything. I wouldn’t call it discoverable. In fact, on several occasions, I’ve learned about Emacs by accident: you press the wrong key combination (easy to do when you’re holding down a couple of keys and stretching for a third) and, look, something interesting happens!

— Accidental Emacs

— 2008-05-06 

— Thomas Guest

2013.03.04 Monday ACHK

Rediscovery

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I hold with the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget that the process of learning mathematics is itself a process of rediscovery. A similar view was expressed by the logician Ludwig Witgenstein, asserting in the preface to his famous Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus that he would probably not be understood except by those who had already had similar thoughts themselves.

— A Unified Language for Mathematics and Physics

— David Hestenes

— Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics

2013.02.18 Monday ACHK

Writer’s block 5

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種子意念 7

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Isaac Asimov and Piers Anthony have both written in their books that they never suffer from writers block, and the reason both gave is that they read and reply to letters from their audience. Isaac Asimov especially replied to every single letter he received (I’m not sure about Piers Anthony).

Penn and Teller seem to have the same idea: Interact with every member of your audience who wants to talk to you. And they are one of the most successful magicians.

I think everyone should learn from this. Do you write a blog? Read every single comment you get, and reply to as many as you can. Run a business? Read as much customer service mail as you can. And if you are small read ALL of it.

— 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic

— Hacker News

2012.12.17 Monday ACHK

心懷混亂

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這段改編自 2010 年 4 月 3 日的對話。

I tell you: one must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

我覺得「種子論」這個名稱，翻譯得很好。「種子論」既沒有資料內容上的漏洞，亦沒有教學表達上的缺憾。

（安：李教授都時常用「種子」做比喻。例如，他會講「功夫種子」。有些做人道理，會因為你的年紀太小，學了也不完全明白。你只會知其大概，而不會立刻真切感受到，那些道理的深刻意思。但是，即使只知其大概，也應該不斷學，因為二十歲學了的道理，其實是「功夫種子」。假以時日，它們就會發芽。　　　

到二十八歲時，你會「突然」明白一些，意想不到的道理，令你想通了大部分人生問題，化解了大部分心靈死結。自此，你再不會時常心緒不寧。

那顯示了，你二十歲時，努力埋下的一大堆伏線，終於修成正果。那亦同時顯示了，在心理上，你年華已去，不再年青。你再不會像以往一樣，時常若有所思，激烈爆發創意。）

— Me@2012.12.12

人們必須在心中懷著混亂，為了能夠創造一個舞動的新星。

– 尼采

2012.12.12 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Small big bang 4

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小宇宙大爆炸 4

Arthur Schopenhauer claimed that phenomena have no free will, but the will as noumenon is free.

— Wikipedia on Free will

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

— On The Freedom Of The Will (1839)

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A will itself cannot be willed because it is the first cause of a causal chain. A first cause is a starting point. Anything can be willed would not be a first cause.

— Me@2012.11.29

2012.11.30 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

A Word to the Wise

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It turns out there is, and the key to the mystery is the old adage “a word to the wise is sufficient.” Because this phrase is not only overused, but overused in an indirect way (by prepending the subject to some advice), most people who’ve heard it don’t know what it means. What it means is that if someone is wise, all you have to do is say one word to them, and they’ll understand immediately. You don’t have to explain in detail; they’ll chase down all the implications.

— A Word to the Resourceful

— January 2012

— Paul Graham

2012.11.24 Saturday ACHK

藉口 3

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Small big bang, 3 | 小宇宙大爆炸 3 | 開山祖師牛 7 | 原因 3 | 西瓜 7

由 = 來源 = 因

原因 = 事件原因 

理由 = 道理原因

自由

= 自己作原因

= 自己可作某些因果鏈的起點

= 自己可作某些事件的第一因

— Me@2012-11-10 12:12:05 PM

描述原因的句子，是經驗句。

解釋理由的句子，是重言句。

— Me@2012-11-10 02:24:55 PM

2012.11.10 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK