Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Monthly Archives: January 2024
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Good design is consistent in every detail.
~ Dieter Rams
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The world’s leaders are correctly fixated on economic growth as the answer to virtually all problems, but they’re pushing it with all their might in the wrong direction.
~ Donella Meadows
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Generative AI Statement of the Day
via Brown University
The Generative AI Statement recently published by Brown University can be found here:
Potential impact of AI on our academic mission
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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Campus Trivia
America’s 10 largest companies in 2000
The 10 largest companies on the 2000 Fortune 500 list via CNN Money:
- General Motors
- Wal-Mart
- ExxonMobile
- Ford
- General Electric
- International Business Machines
- Citigroup
- AT&T
- Altria Group
- Boeing
Between 1990 and 2000 – three companies dropped out of the top 10: Chrysler; DuPont; and Texaco.
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Painting can not, without falling into abstraction, let a partial aspect of art dominate, whether it be drawing, color, composition, or any other one of the extraordinary multiplicity of means the totality of which alone constitutes this art.
~ Gustave Courbet
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Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.
~ Walter Kirn
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The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.
~ John Foster Dulles
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Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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