March 2012
28 posts
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“ “Memory locations are just wires turned sideways in time.” ”
– Danny Hillis, American inventor, entrepreneur, and author, (1982), cited in George Dyson, A universe of self-replicating code, Edge, Mar 26, 2012
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“ “[Tim Berners-Lee] told me about his proposed system called the ‘World...”
– Ian Ritchie is co-chair of the Scottish Science Advisory Council, a board member of the Edinburgh International Science Festival and the chair of Our Dynamic Earth, the Edinburgh Science Centre, The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee, TEDGobal Talk, July 2011
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“Jerry Mander on the replacement of human images by television (1978)...”
– Jerry Mander, American author, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (pdf), Morrow, New York, 1978, p. 242-244. See also: Memory and Forgetting, Radiolab, 2007
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“ “The miracle of your mind isn’t that you can see the world as it is, but...”
– Kathryn Schulz, American journalist and author, Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong, TED talk [12:00-12:17], Mar 2011.
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“ “What if we’re not, in fact, meant to have language and music? (…)...”
– Mark Changizi, an evolutionary neurobiologist, ☞ Are We “Meant” to Have Language and Music? How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man, March 15th, 2012.
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“ “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” ”
– B. F. Skinner , American behaviorist, author, inventor, social philosopher and poet (1904-1990), Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis, 1969
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“ “You know what I’d like to be? I mean, if I had my choice? You know...”
– J.D. Salinger, American writer (1919-2010), The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company, 1951, p. 224.
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“ “Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person...”
– J.D. Salinger, American writer (1919-2010), The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company, 1951, p. 246.
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“ “We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use...”
– Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s,The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, (1892)
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“ “Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the...”
– John Maeda, Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author, cited in The universe will fly like a bird
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“ “We now know enough to know that we will never know everything. This is...”
– Jonah Lehrer, American journalist who writes on the topics of psychology, neuroscience, and the relationship between science and the humanities, Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Mariner Books, 2008.
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“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to...”
– Ronald Wright, Canadian writer, historian, archeologist, A Short History of Progress, House of Anansi Press, 2004. (Illustration: The Colossus of Rhodes)
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“ “Who or what inspires you?”
— “I must admit that I often...”
– Eoin Colfer, Irish writer, The Artemis Fowl Files, Hyperion Books For Children, 2004.
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“ “We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand...”
– Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing (c. 35-100) (tnx fast-t-feasts)
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“ “You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple...”
– Eric R. Kandel, American neuropsychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate, A Quest to Understand How Memory Works, NYT, March 5, 2012
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“ “The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human...”
– Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist, cultural relativist, and folklorist (1887-1948)
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“ “Anthropologists seek out epiphanies through a sense of “Vuja De.”...”
– Tom Kelley, business consultant, author, The Ten Faces of Innovation, Doubleday, 2005. (tnx innovationcultures)
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“ “Well, I don’t like the first bit and I don’t know the last bit. So...”
– Eoin Colfer, Irish writer, Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, Chapter 11: A Long Way Down, Puffin Books, 2006.
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“A paradox: the same century invented History and Photography. But...”
– Roland Barthes, French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician (1915-1980), Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Hill and Wang, 1994. (Illustration source)
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“ “When I muse about memes, I often find myself picturing an ephemeral...”
– Douglas Hofstadter, American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics, Pulitzer Prize laureate, Metamagical themas: questing for the essence of mind and pattern, Basic Book, 1985, p. 52.
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“Odysseus wept when he heard the poet sing of his great deeds abroad...”
– Ward Just, American writer, An Unfinished Season, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. (Illustration: Odysseus)
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“ “He was also mistaken in supposing that he was dealing with the laws of...”
– Bertrand Russell paid George Boole an extraordinary compliment: “Pure mathematics was discovered by Boole, in a work which he called the Laws of Thought.”, Mysticism and logic, and other essays, Rowman & Littlefield, 1981, p.59. cited in James Gleick, The Information: A History, a...
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“The science of poetry, the poetry of science
“Poetry and science have...”
– Ruth Padel, British poet who also writes criticism, The science of poetry, the poetry of science, Guardian, 9 Dec 2011
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“ “It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.” ”
– Wallace Stevens, American Modernist poet (1879-1955), cited in David Madden, A primer of the novel, Scarecrow Press, 1980, p. 192.
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“The most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are...”
– Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics, Nobel Prize laureate (1879-1955), Professor Einstein Writes in Appreciation of a Fellow-Mathematician. To the Editor of The New York Times, Princeton University, May...
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“Nicholas Carr on Information and Contemplative Thought
“The internet is a...”
– Nicholas Carr, American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture, “We Turn Ourselves Into Media Creations”, The European, 31.01.2012.
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“What are memories made of?
“Our memories are not inert packets of data...”
– Jonah Lehrer, American author and journalist, in ☞ What are memories made of?, Wired Magazine, Feb 17, 2012 