Saturday, April 13, 2013
I’ve never seen a turtle move before.
— Akshay
Friday, April 12, 2013
Let it be.
— Shaggy and The Beatles, “Let It Be Me”
Thursday, April 11, 2013
An almost unlimited individual freedom.
— Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, “Berlin Modernism and the Architecture of the Metropolis"
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
You don’t miss anything. You’re not homesick. It puts you in this state.
— Don Draper, “The Doorway,” Mad Men
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
We’re all the same enough. And our small differences make us even more the same.
— Kristin Cotter
Monday, April 8, 2013
Assuming Newton’s laws and general relativity are correct.
— Neta Bahcall
Sunday, April 7, 2013
If the human brain operates equivalently to a machine, then according to the Church-Turing thesis, the human brain would be no more powerful than a Turing machine. Hence, humans would be incapable of solving problems like the Halting problem.
— Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne, Introduction to Programming in Java
Saturday, April 6, 2013
A man needs something to tell him, from time to time, that he is still himself.
— Konrad Lorenz, King Solomon’s Ring
Friday, April 5, 2013
Step into the elevator press three.
— Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Jimmy lovine - feat. Ab-Soul”
Thursday, April 4, 2013
How does one give implicit worth to a product of time / matter / chance?
— Ravi Zacharias
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Best play ever man.
— Mr. Little Jeans, Rushmore
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Without producing anything more offensive than apocalyptic wallpaper.
— Dmitri Tymoczko
Monday, April 1, 2013
However, once these thoughts had started up in the vacuum they wouldn’t stop going round and round in my head, again and again, in ever-changing combinations, and they went on until I fell asleep.
— Stefan Zweig, Chess
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Something to do with the essentials… that someone really feels spoken to. That someone who comes here takes away something that he or she can ponder over, and maybe reconsider.
— Truus Schröder in Alice T. Friedman, “Family Matters: The Schröder House, by Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schröder,” Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Maybe that’s not a technical term, but what ever it is, it is beautiful when you recognize it.
— Maddie Wilson, “I nurse, you nurse, we nurse,” The Daily Pennsylvanian
Friday, March 29, 2013
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7,
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
The existing information and what you self-discover may at first seem skimpy and difficult to connect to other bodies of knowledge. Well, if that’s the case, good.
— E. O. Wilson, “Advice to young scientists,” TED Talk
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
A get on and get on with it attitude of the world.
— Alan Ryan
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
They don’t trust themselves.
— Nick
Monday, March 25, 2013
Too much time spent on nothing.
— First Aid Kit, “When I Grow Up”