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“What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the...”
“School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable...”
– Ivan Illich
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped...
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“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride...”
– Franklin P. Jones
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“We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.”
– Simon Newcomb
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“It is the responsibility of your teammates to nurture you through competition. ...”
– Mia Ham
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and...
“I am just waiting for a better day.”
United, Continental Deep in Deal Talks →
Gramps says that I am a country girl at heart, and that is true. I have lived most of my thirteen years in Bybanks, Kentucky, which is not much more than a caboodle of houses roosting in a green spot alongside the Ohio River. Just over a year ago, my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings (no, that is not true-he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple,...
“When I eventually met Mr Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.”
– Rita Rudner
Tumblr neural network
ku: Each tumblr users can be see as a neuron which fires on responding to the signals. Signals are each posts and reblogs. These neurons are connected with other hundreds of neurons by following/followed. Connected neurons recieve neighbors’ firings. Some of connected neighbor neurons are activated by the post/reblog and fire as a response of the signal. This is a part of the reason why tumblr...
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fred-wilson: I read Joe Nocera’s column last weekend about J. K. Rowling’s efforts to control everything related to her Harry Potter novels. I understand that she created the characters and the story. And I understand her desire to control everything that is done with that intellectual property. But I wonder if she was inspired by anything she read in the creation of the Harry Potter series. Were...
“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil...”
– Euripides
“Dune can be read on so many different levels. I really get different things out...”
– Kevin J. Anderson
“If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of...”
