— How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves in the water!
— You are not a fish; how do you know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?
— You are not myself, how do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?
Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?
Man vill bli älskad, i brist därpå beundrad, i brist därpå, fruktad, i brist därpå avskydd och föraktad. Man vill ingiva hos människorna någon slags känsla. Själen ryser för tomrummet och vill kontakt till vilket pris som helst.
They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this is a good argument against atheism. I think it’s a better argument against foxholes.
Any sufficiently complex distributed system library support in C will eventually converge towards a crude re-implementation of Erlang.
The impostor syndrome, in which competent people find it impossible to believe in their own competence, can be viewed as complementary to the Dunning–Kruger effect, in which incompetent people find it impossible to believe in their own incompetence.
People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
Teaism: When tea is more than a drink and the tea ceremony is understood and practiced to foster harmony in humanity, promote harmony with nature, discipline the mind, quiet the heart, and attain the purity of enlightenment, the art of tea becomes teaism.
Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
In fact, next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities.
Common sense is not so common.
I sometimes run a very old version of The Sims to optimize living conditions for two people with busy lives who want to achieve maximum happiness and self actualization. I run simulations of floor-plans and then try to find places that are similar to those floorplans. It took two years to find my current place of residence, and not only is it cheap, but I can run Sims whenever something seems odd in the house. Turns out that an errant chair or a table configuration might cause undue friction and, over time, decrease joy and happiness. It’s difficult to step outside of life and watch it from an isomorphic architecture view in 30x speed, but the Sims allows you to do that. It’s kind of my version of debugging life, and it’s another reason why I have a PC lying around.
(Source: amber.case.usesthis.com)
People keep asking me to join the LinkedIn network, but I’m already part of a network; it’s called the Internet.
(Source: blog.jonudell.net)
It’s difficult to be rigorous about whether a machine really ‘knows’, ‘thinks’, etc., because we’re hard put to define these things. We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming.
(Source: en.wikiquote.org)
I have no issue with those who do something useful, produce value, and make 100 times more money than me. I have many issues with those who produce nothing, destroy value, make others homeless and poor, scam the entire world, and make 10000 times more money than me. Those must go, which the insane system that makes their scams possible.
(Source: ieet.org)
