Think
Recharge
Fail forward
If you don't fail, you're not even trying... To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did... Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. You've got to take risks... First you will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose. You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it.... I didn't get the job. But here's the thing. I didn't quit. I didn't fall back. I walked out of there to prepare for the next audition and the next. I prayed. And I prayed. But I continued to fail and fail and fail. But it didn't matter because you know what? There's an old saying- 'If you hang around the barber shop long enough sooner or later you're going to get a haircut'. So you will catch a break. I did catch a break... Denzel Washington
Enlightenment
Generations
Imagine a contemporary human on a beach holding her mother's hand. Then picture the mother in turn holding the hand of her own mother. Then with your imagination, extend this hand-holding chain additional generations into the past. When this imagined chain of ancestors reaches about 300 miles (480km) in length (this takes 500,000 generations), it will have reached the point where the mother at the head of the line resembles the beings we call chimpanzees. Keep in mind that we started with humans, and that, of course, all the mothers and daughters are directly related to one another. Richard Dawkins
There was no single first human. Just as we cannot say for sure where yellow begins exactly on a rainbow- there is no clear point in time one's mother was a chimp-like ape whose daugher was a human.
Deep
剑客
十年磨一劍
霜刃未曾試
今日把示君
誰有不平事
賈島
无悔这一生
没有泪光风里劲闯
怀着心中新希望
能冲一次 多一次
不息自强
没有泪光风里劲闯
重植根于小岛岸
如天可变风可转
不息自强
这方向
卢国宏
From Beyond. No regrets in this life.
回乡偶书
少小离家老大回
乡音无改鬓毛衰
儿童相见不相识
笑问客从何处来
贺知章
Hilarity
Speed reading
I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and was able to go through War and Peace in 20 minutes. It's about Russia. Woody Allen
Language
A professor was discussing how grammar varied across the world's languages. 'Whilst in some languages a double negative gives a positive, and in other languages a double negative expresses a negative, there are no known languages in which a double positive results in a negative.' From the back of the lecture theater in tones of heavy sarcasm was heard: 'Yeah, yeah.' Unknown
Full of shit
Steve Jobs had managed to get Don Knuth, the legendary Stanford professor of computer science, to give a lunchtime lecture to the Mac team. Knuth is the author of at least a dozen books, including the massive and somewhat impenetrable trilogy "The Art of Computer Programming." I was sitting in Steve's office when Lynn Takahashi, Steve's assistant, announced Knuth's arrival. Steve bounced out of his chair, bounded over to the door and extended a welcoming hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books." "You're full of shit," Knuth responded.
Efficient markets
"Isn't that a $10 bill lying on the ground?" asks the student.
"No, it can't be a $10 bill," answers the professor. "If it were, someone would have picked it up by now."
The professor walks away, and the student picks it up and has a beer.