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Epigrams On Programming
Teaching computer science
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
How Books Will Become Machines
Lamartine on the future of books (1831)
The future of books in the 1830s. ‘Before this century shall end, journalism will be the whole press - the whole human thought. Thought will spread across the world with the rapidity of light, instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood. It will blanket the…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The strength of feeling is no voucher for the validity of knowledge
What they claim is that through the medium of profound feelings one can penetrate deep into the soul of things (Innre), draw close to the heart of nature. But these feelings are deep only in so far as with them are simultaneously aroused, although almost imperceptibly, certain…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Siamo ciò che abbiamo pensato
Tutto ciò che siamo è il risultato di ciò che abbiamo pensato. Se un uomo parla o agisce con un cattivo pensiero, il dolore lo segue. Se un uomo parla o agisce con un pensiero puro, la felicità lo segue come un'ombra che non lo abbandona mai. (Buddha)
Il pensiero è il seme dell'azione
Il pensiero è il seme dell'azione. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional
Career change: move forward not away
We often leave a job or situation because we are unhappy about something: an overbearing manager, irritating colleagues, ridiculous hours. When we make a change, however, what thoughts, beliefs and habits travel with us recreating the environment we're escaping? A change is an…
Career change: take conscious action
Recognise what you can and cannot control, and do things with purpose. I cannot change the world around me. I cannot change others. But I do have control over my thoughts and actions. I don't have to live subject to the things or people I experience. I choose how I treat…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Un solo pensiero contiene l'universo
Ciò significa che in ogni elemento dell’universo c’è l’universo intero: la comprensione dell’intermedio (chu) ci permette di stabilirlo. Una formulazione del Tendai recita: «Un solo pensiero è identico a tremila». In esso si cela l’universo.
Tre alfabeti, una visione del mondo
La prima impressione che si ha alla lettura di un testo giapponese è la confusione, cioè l’impressione della contaminazione tra due mondi. I caratteri cinesi (kanji) convivono con una sorta di alfabeto autoctono, hiragana, la cui forma scritta, pure, deriva dal cinese. La…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
The components of a thought
We have already seen that an intentional state sets conditions of satisfaction. So for example, if I have the belief that Socrates drinks water then my belief will be true, and hence satisfied, if and only if Socrates drinks water. The questions we are asking now are, What…
Taking Better Notes In Zotero – Profhacker - Blogs - The Chronicle Of Higher Education
Notes like index cards, not marginalia
This is all well and good for certain types of notes, such as summaries of books that I read for exams. It’s kind of like scribbling marginalia in a book. But this method is not so good for other types of notes, such as pieces of evidence or quotations. The problem is that…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Form follows function and the Lamarckian fallacy
Another problem with Sullivan’s law is that the sentence “form follows function” indicates that the relationship between the two components is unidirectional. [..] The problem is that the world doesn’t work that way. A species doesn’t feel a need first (the function) and then…
Tim Lott – Zen Buddhism And Alan Watts
Zen and science
While it is refreshing that Zen philosophy is supported in many ways by present scientific knowledge, it is also a critique of scientific thought. The scientific tradition requires things up to be cut up — both mentally and physically — into smaller and small pieces to…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
Quantitative vs qualitative approaches in dh
This volume provides pathways of thought for refracting our study of the humanities through a new prism of digital media and technology, while simultaneously helping us to explore the intrinsic and inevitable connection between technology and humanity. The March 2010 conference…