Can't order food

August 24, 2012
I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu. Five minutes later I realize that it’s also talking about food.
-- Donald Knuth, when asked about the his work on computer typesetting.

Website 4 the day:
A brief history of fonts:
http://www.vletter.com/aboutfonts.htm

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy 

 

No special talents

August 23, 2012
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
-- Albert Einstein

Website 4 the day:
Curiosity and intelligence:
http://phys.org/news172174436.htm

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy 

 

No idea

August 22, 2012
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
-- Stephen Hawking, when asked as to his IQ.

Website 4 the day:
History of the IQ test:
http://iq-test.learninginfo.org/iq01.htm

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy 

 

I'll stop here

August 21, 2012
I think I’ll stop here.
-- Andrew Wiles after finishing writing the proof to Fermat’s Last Theorem

Website 4 the day:
Wiles' interview:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/andrew-wiles-fermat.html

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy 

 

Didn't know

August 20, 2012
Well, I didn’t know it was hard.
-- Ivan Sutherland, when asked “How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?”

Website 4 the day:
Increase ignorance for success:
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/become-a-success-by-increasing-your-ignorance

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy 

 

My friend drowned

August 19, 2012
My friend drowned in a bowl of muesli. He was pulled in by a strong currant.

Website 4 the Day:
Famous people who drowned:
http://listverse.com/2008/05/29/12-notable-people-who-died-by-drowning/

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

Television and psychiatry

August 18, 2012
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

Website 4 the day:
Psychiatry videos:
http://www.psy-world.com/videos.htm

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy 

 

Television and democracy

August 17, 2012
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
-- Paddy Chayefsky

Website 4 the day:
Death of TV: Democracy's rebirth
http://news.discovery.com/human/campaigns-end-tv-commercials-120531.html

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Philosophy 

 

Writing raised

August 16, 2012
Television has raised writing to a new low.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

Website 4 the day:
Television writing competition:
http://www.scriptapaloozatv.com/

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 

The weather channel

August 15, 2012
On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather.
We had something like that where I grew up.
We called it a window.
-- Dan Spencer

Website 4 the day:
Weather Channel's forecast:
http://www.weather.com/forecast

Posted by Ira Chayut. Posted In : Humor 

 
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