January 2012
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“Maths joke: if you have a pizza with radius z and thickness a, it’s volume...”
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November 2011
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“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set”
– LIN YUTANG (1895-1976)
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that...”
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October 2011
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“There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and...”
– MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (1533-92)
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“The obstacle is the path. ZEN SAYING”
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September 2011
16 posts
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers”
– TS ELIOT
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“It is better to be wrong than vague.”
– Freeman Dyson
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“Every 2 minutes today we snap as many photos as the whole of humanity took in...”
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“There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE”
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“The man who is not dead still has a chance”
– LEBANESE PROVERB
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“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done...”
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“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge”
– BERTRAND RUSSELL (1872-1970)
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“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important”
– T. S. ELIOT
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“I still remember exactly where I was, standing in a Dolores Street apartment...”
– Glenn Kelman
The Technium: Found Quotes, 10
“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals – they always come in handy.”
– STANISLAW LEC (1909-66)
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“What is dust to some is gunpowder to others.”
– AFGHAN PROVERB
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“I feel an irresistible desire to wander, and go to Japan, where I will pass my...”
– OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. PLATO”
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“Humans have spent as long playing World of Warcraft as they have existed as a...”
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August 2011
7 posts
“All the carrots in the world originally came from Afghanistan.”
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“We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and...”
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July 2011
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June 2011
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“I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. NOEL...”
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“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough. MARIO...”
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“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s...”
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“Our number-one value isn’t in any of the skills we have. It’s that we’re...”
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May 2011
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“Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of my friend, mentor and hero Douglas...”
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April 2011
13 posts
“California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.”
– FRED ALLEN (1894-1956)
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“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And...”
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Since the first stone tools were made, the human brain has tripled in size
Gruber: There’s a German word that I’m looking for.
Dan: Where you laugh at somebody else’s misfortune?
Gruber: No. But it’s along the lines of that. It’s a German word for when you’re running the vacuum, and you see a little, like, Star Wars figure gun or a Lego piece, something of that size, and the head of the vacuum is just inches away, and you go to stop, so as not to suck it up, no matter how many times you as a parent have warned the child whom the little piece belongs to to be careful about such things so that they don’t get vacuumed up, but you try to stop, because you have memories of being a child yourself and having been warned by your parents along similar lines and yet suspecting that your own parents were unsympathetic and purposefully vacuumed up such pieces, and that the emotional scarring and memory of such lost guns causes you, no matter how many times this has happened, to stop the vacuum cleaner and but even in your best efforts to stop, the suction of the vacuum and proximity to the head are such that the piece still gets sucked up and is lost forever. What is the German word for that?
Dan: Yeah. I don’t know.
Gruber: It’s on the tip of my tongue.
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