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Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost read more
Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost any information you need from a storehouse of the world's published knowledge.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
We must become the change we want to see.
We must become the change we want to see.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
But these are foolish things to all the wise,
And I love wisdom more than she loves me;
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But these are foolish things to all the wise,
And I love wisdom more than she loves me;
My tendency is to philosophise
On most things, from a tyrant to a tree;
But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies,
What are we? and whence come we? what shall be
Our ultimate existence? What's our present?
Are questions answerless, and yet incessant.
