March 2012
36 posts
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“What I really do is teach people to think.” He later continued, “The deep...”
– Edward Tufte: How useful is an Edward Tufte one-day course? - Quora
“The bite taken out of Apple’s emblematic fruit advertises the mental audacity of...”
– Observer review: The Man Who Knew Too Much by David Leavitt | Books | The Observer
A fascinating connection drawn. I wonder if either of these thoughts were in Jobs’ head when founding the company or creating the logo
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“Topics like linear algebra, topology, graph theory, and machine learning are...”
– Makematics - Math for makers
“To “Linguistic Skills” I’d add that musical notation is specifically built to...”
– adventures in optimization: a few thoughts on music and computer programming
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“I will never stop learning. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me....”
– 102 People Power 16% of the Web | Social Media Today
Automattic’s corporate creed
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“Content Management implies that content is just another hunk of data like any...”
– Content & Coding are Not Commodities! (developerWorks SXSW Adventure 2012)
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““Every musician should learn [this],” Iyer says. “It’s...”
– Vijay Iyer: The Physical Experience of Rhythm : NPR
(via Ileana Oroza)
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“Scientists probe, pluck, test and analyze questions. Artists discover questions...”
– Virginia Woolf, At Intersection Of Science And Art : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
“Phenomenally conscious content — what distinguishes the experience of blue from...”
– Book Review - Self Comes to Mind - By Antonio Damasio - NYTimes.com
“Having money is overrated when you are brought up not to believe you are...”
– Factual’s Gil Elbaz Wants to Gather the Data Universe - NYTimes.com
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“Thinking is partly Memory, and partly an Operation of the Soul in forming new...”
– Robert Hooke in A Hypothetical Explication of Memory
http://media.longnow.org/salt-slides/GDyson.html
“The best lesson I can pull from Lehrer’s mess of an article is this: creativity...”
– In defense of Brainstorming: against Lehrer’s New Yorker article « Scott Berkun
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“Researchers conclude that American children are not less competent, but that...”
– Are we asking enough of our kids? Anthropologists don’t think so - On Parenting - The Washington Post
“We are surrounded by Nothing. Everywhere we go, we have no idea what we’re not...”
– Two Ways To Think About Nothing
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“To me it’s really about the idea itself. If people respond to it, you have...”
– Snark by Snarkwest: A Conversation With Joss Whedon « Snarkmarket
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“editing through the eyes of the people watching it” - great advice for ANY...”
– Snark by Snarkwest: A Conversation With Joss Whedon « Snarkmarket
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“it was sometimes frustrating and a little daunting, even. A genre writer never...”
– Snark by Snarkwest: A Conversation With Joss Whedon « Snarkmarket
In response to a question about having enough money to do anything he wanted with The Avengers at #sxswi 2012.
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“We now know enough to know that we will never know everything. This is why we...”
– Creating a “Fourth Culture” of Knowledge: Jonah Lehrer on Why Science and Art Need Each Other | Brain Pickings
Yet another reminder that I really need to read Jonah Lehrer books.
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson Testifies Before Senate on the Spirit of Exploration
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“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into...”
– Quote Details: Arthur C. Clarke: The only way to… - The Quotations Page
Saw this quote on the wall of the Star Trek exhibit at St. Louis SCience Center. Love it.
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“In complex adaptive systems it can also be argued that the modern scientific...”
– The Pathology of Stabilisation in Complex Adaptive Systems at Macroeconomic Resilience
via Clay Shirky on Twitter
“once you see that a totally different logic works, you think, hmm, “What I know...”
– Inside-Out Your Mind
“something hidden has been revealed; my sense of possibility has just expanded....”
– Inside-Out Your Mind
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Conceptualization: How do you define what you’re looking for?
Operationalization: How will you know when you see it?
(I think via Precision Journalism)
“As companies grow, there is a danger that novel ideas get snuffed out by...”
– Brain scan: Taking the long view | The Economist
Jeff Bezos again
“Successful firms, he says, tend to be the ones that are willing to explore...”
– Brain scan: Taking the long view | The Economist
Jeff Bezos
“The hope is that while communities are based on shared interests and thus are at...”
– Joho the Blog » Reddit and community journalism
“demand-control” model of stress, in which the damage caused by chronic stress...”
– Are Your Co-Workers Killing You? | Wired Science | Wired.com
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“The point is to get people interested in a lot of different areas of life. Get...”
– How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important
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Watch(via Microsoft: Illumishare - Interactive (video) - Creativity Online)
via Patrick Cooper on Twitter
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“I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first...”
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
via Andrew Spittle
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“The problem is, the media is not built for relationships because our industry...”
– Are media in the content business? « BuzzMachine
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“Instead of looking at what’s attracting eyeballs, flip your analysis...”
– Look at the bottom, not the top, of your traffic analytics to boost your website’s readership
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