Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
― Michel Foucault
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
The iPhone 3G
turns 16 today
The iPhone 3G was released today – July 11 – in 2008.
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Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
~ Niels Bohr
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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[Twitter] @gtdguy
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Amazon was founded on this day in 1994
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon on this day – July 5, 1994 – in Bellevue, Washington.
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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~ John Ruskin