"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | [via The Economist] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» bookofjoe Too much information — Got yottabytes?: .) augment verb |ɔːgˈmɛnt| [ trans. ] make (something) greater by adding to it; increase : The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it. A film produced for my final year Masters in Architecture, part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality. Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo. [ continue reading what is reality anyways? ] So if you are going to do a presentation about Twitter why not make every utterance on a topic a maximum of 140 characters – sensible?. Why are speeches and lectures by British people so strewn with surplus adjectives? All good stuff though. Joules, the Tandem Bike Robot that Pedals for You (Video) : TreeHugger. Ok people say my posts are eclectic and disjointed – they aren’t – the world is. This thing will not encourage you, push you, chat to you, pass you toffees and dates, and directions like a McNeill junior. Both my daughters have been the best stokers anyone could ask for and I can only remember one unplanned dismount with each of them. Thanks to Boing Boing again for sending me here. … and if 20,000,000,000 of these things got together in the warehouse after dark who could stop them? I have learned that people are confused at my AI/robotics interest, there’s no need to be. | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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