There is something I find strangely reassuring in our ability to quickly asses people and form snap judgements about them (accurate or otherwise), for it allows us to know we are just as susceptible to instant classification ourselves. Rather than see this as insulting stereotyping, I like the fact it can make our own worries seem much smaller from the outside, indeed sometimes no more than predictable symptoms of the cliche that we present to the world through our choices of clothes and language and posture.
Derren Brown (via insidewantsout97)
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1 month ago on April 03, 2012 at 12:29am
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (via andynyman)
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1 year ago on May 01, 2011 at 05:07pm
Quit relying on those ********* “devices”! Start reading books again, at least one or two a month. If all you do is log on and read blogs, then you are doo doo.
Advice from University faculty (Dr. Robert King), “5 things I’ve learned”
1 year ago on March 03, 2011 at 11:46am
If you must venture outdoors…make sure you wear a hat and gloves.
SEVERE WEATHER ALERT for Austin, Texas issued by the National Weather Service.
…thanks Mom.
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1 year ago on February 01, 2011 at 09:13pm
What you mean to communicate about yourself is not the point: it is actually what you communicate that is the important fact.
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1 year ago on January 30, 2011 at 01:49pm
We have erred in downplaying how competitive life is, and how difficult it is to truly excel. One of the toughest lessons I tried to impart to my daughter is that you need to work as hard as you possibly can to achieve excellence, and sometimes even then you fall short.
Karen Karbo, in New York Times article “When Parents Feel Out of Control”
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1 year ago on January 21, 2011 at 06:00pm
This in turn reminds us of the elusively obvious fact that those we meet are already leading lives as complicated as our own… Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny them their humanity.
Derren Brown - Confessions of a Conjuror (via miser-christmas)
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1 year ago on January 04, 2011 at 11:17pm
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
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1 year ago on October 28, 2010 at 12:55pm
Sow a thought and you reap an action;
sow an act and you reap a habit;
sow a habit and you reap a character;
sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, by way of my pastor.
1 year ago on October 06, 2010 at 08:03am
Teacher: How would you describe this paper in a very high level way to one of your non-technical friends?
Student: It’s very German.
In my Operating Systems class, after reading a German-authored paper that was about a large number of really clever performance optimizations for an operating system. e.g. The author had streamlined one operation to run 20 times faster than it had before.
Another quote from my teacher: One gets the sense from this paper that <the author> was born not just to make <this system> run fast!
1 year ago on October 01, 2010 at 09:13am
