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"So many of his witnesses observed the utter freedom of his flights of
thought, yet when Feynman talked about his own methods, not freedom but
constraint...For Feynman the essence of scientific imagination was a
powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match
reality. it must match what is already known, scientific imagination, he
said, is imagination in a straightjacket...The rule of harmonic
progression made for Mozart a cage as unyielding as the sonnet did for
Shakespeare. As unyielding and as liberating - for later critics found
the creator's genius in the counterpoint of structure and freedom, rigour
and inventiveness."
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From Genius, a biography of Richard Feynman
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I want to start this day off clean and fresh, with no mistakes in
it yet, and work as hard as I possibly can, not just at school, but
at everything that I do. And I want to be the best student and friend
and person that I can be, no excuses because it's more of a crime
to dream mediocre dreams than to fail when your dreams are too
big. Maybe the dream is the important part, because it shows who you are
more clearly than any actions you might take to prove something to someone
or to make yourself look good. Your dreams are what's inside of you and
just to have beautiful thoughts I think is the real measure of worth.
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From a truly inspirational, and truly wonderful friend of mine who shall
remain nameless.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Joseph Heller
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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Anne Frank
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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking
what you have, instead of what you don't have.
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Woody Allen
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Albert Einstein
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It is amazing what you can accomplish
if you do not care who gets the credit.
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Harry Truman
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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Thomas Jefferson
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People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Remember your dreams.
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Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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E. E. Cummings
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Moliere
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Charles A. Beard
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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Helen Keller
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The measure of a man's real character
is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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T.B. Macaulay
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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Will Rogers
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
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Isaac Asimov
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Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your
spare time.
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Marion Wright Edelman
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Kindness is wisdom.
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Phillip J. Bailey
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If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.
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Walt Disney
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When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a
nail.
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From Abraham Maslow as adapted from:
"It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat
everything as if it were a nail"
From The Psychology of Science: a
Reconnaissance Chicago: Henry Regnery 1966.
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Computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about
telescopes.
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Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002
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Some men see things the way they are and say why? I dream things that
never were and say 'Why not?'
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Robert F. Kennedy
Closely related to:
You see things and say 'Why?';
but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?'
George Bernard Shaw (Back to Metuselah, Act I)
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Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos
and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have
evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival.
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Carl Sagan
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the alter of
crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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Yann Martel, Authors Note, Life of Pi
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the truth?
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Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of (the) Four
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Inside every adult lurks a graduation speaker dying to get out,
some
world-weary pundit eager to pontificate on life to young people who'd
rather
be Rollerblading. Most of us, alas, will never be invited to sow our words
of
wisdom among an audience of caps and gowns, but there's no reason we can't
entertain ourselves by composing a Guide to Life for Graduates.
I encourage anyone over 26 to try this and thank you for indulging my
attempt.
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.
The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists,
whereas
the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering
experience. I will dispense this advice now.
... article text continued
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From
Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young by Mary Schmich,
Published June 1, 1997 in the Chicago Tribune Note: This was not a
speech by Kurt Vonnegut to MIT Note Also: This article was adapted, with
permission, by Baz Luhrmann into a "Song" voiced by Lee Perry.
For more information see
Her last Web word might be "Rosewater", Vonnegut? Schmich? Who can tell in cyberspace?, From column to song: 'Sunscreen' spreads to Chicago
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Hello... You Suck
(Email and the death of American
conversation)
Neil McAllister, Special to SF
Gate
Monday, January 25, 1999
©2002 SF
Gate
If you want to get a feel for how rapidly email is becoming one of our
most popular forms of communication, just ask the United States Post
Office.
According to a survey conducted last year, the number of pieces
of electronic mail sent in 1999 will already outnumber the postal mail
sent by a factor of as much as 1,000 to 1, with email messages
numbering in the trillions.
Yet if this is the trend, how interesting that so many of the people I
talk to describe the actual email they receive in terms ranging from
"impersonal" all the way to "obnoxious."
If email is one of our most
efficient and useful forms of communication, it also seems to be among
the most dysfunctional.
Leave aside, for the moment, the whole issue of email advertising. No,
I'm talking about all the rest of the mail. Bluntly put, something
about email seems capable of transforming even the most normal, rational
person into -- let's face it -- a jerk.
Case in point: I've come to expect a certain amount of criticism of my
columns on SF Gate, as well as intelligent and
often very enlightening feedback. But to
be sure, no matter if I'm writing about Microsoft monopolies or the
price of floppy disks in China, I can also count on at least one person
to write in raving as though I've burned their flag. "Don't like
Windows? Yeah, well you're ugly, too." It's just par for the course.
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Archived From
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/technology/archive/1999/01/25/email.dtl
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Why I Want a Wife by
Judy Syfers (1971)
(Editors Note: This classic piece of feminist humor appeared in the
premier issue of Ms. Magazine and was widely circulated in the
women's movement.)
I belong
to that classification of people known as wives. I am A Wife.
And, not
altogether incidentally, I am a mother. Not too long ago a male friend
of mine appeared on the scene fresh from a recent divorce. He had one
child, who is, of course, with his ex-wife. He is looking for another
wife. As I thought about him while I was ironing one evening, it suddenly
occurred to me that I too, would like to have a wife. Why do I want
a wife?
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Above, copied from article appearing at http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUArchive/wantawife.html
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100 Things Worth Every Penny
10.30.99
article text
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Above, copied from article appearing at http://www.forbes.com/fyi/1999/1030/146.html
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100 things worth every penny
11.13.00
article text
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Above, copied from article appearing at http://www.forbes.com/fyi/2000/1113/100things_9-28_print.html
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