October 2009
25 posts
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
– Voltaire
“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.”
– Voltaire
Rashomon effect →
is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
It is named for Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon, in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.
(via Daring Fireball)
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
– Clarence Darrow
“There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in...”
– Theodore Hesburgh
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of...”
– Dante, The Inferno
“Say what’s on your mind before what’s on your mind is how you...”
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government...”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”
“My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.”
“What am I proudest of? After we’d won a championship, a reporter asked one...”
– John Wooden
“Pick up your own orange peels.”
– John Wooden
“My father gave me a two-dollar bill for my grade-school graduation and said,...”
– John Wooden
“If I am through learning, I am through.”
– John Wooden
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.”
– John Wooden
“You can do more good by being good than any other way.”
– John Wooden
(Today is his 99th birthday.)
“Son, people will always try and fuck you. Don’t waste your life planning...”
– shitmydadsays
“Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won’t screw you,...”
– shitmydadsays
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
– Thomas H. Huxley (via theimpossiblecool)
“Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.”
– Madonna
“Some people read because they are too lazy to think.”
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
– Harry S. Truman
Louis Armstrong - I Get Ideas
(Going to be my...