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Epigrams On Programming
Editing is rewording
Editing is a rewording activity.
Computers process numbers, not symbols
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Hamlet On The Holodeck
Bad reaction to technologies
[talking about a scholar who wouldn't accept the new technologies] To my mind it was because she could not separate the activities of research from the particular form they had historically assumed. Her love of books (which I share) momentarily blinded her to the true object of…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The less men are bound by tradition, the greater is the inner activity of motives
Age of Comparison.—The less men are bound by tradition, the greater is the inner activity of motives, the greater, correspondingly, the outer restlessness, the promiscuous flow of humanity, the polyphony of strivings. Who now feels any great impulse to establish himself and his…