Sunday, September 25, 2011

Duct tape

"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the world together."

Thursday, May 6, 2010

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Went to a meeting yesterday and sat across from a most extraordinary gentleman.

He was old, very old in fact.

Total recall, even at the age of 98.

We should all be so lucky.

Fascinating!

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Philosophy Today 4

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind. -- Herbert Spencer

Philosophy Today 3

The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white. -- Alfred Tarski

Philosophy Today 2

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No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. -- Paul Feyerabend

Philosophy Today 1

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Each of us not only 'has', but lives a biography reflexively organised in terms of flows of social and psychological information about possible ways of life. Modernity is a post-traditional order, in which the question, 'How shall I live?' has to be answered in day-to-day decisions about how to behave, what to wear and what to eat - and many other things - as well as interpreted within the temporal unfolding of self-identity. -- Anthony Giddens

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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"It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture."

--Paul Cezanne