Someone wrote on the Internet — see a post on the Moomin Light blog and EDUCAUSE’s Edupage of 28 February 1999: As for Fred Astaire’s dancing, both George Balanchine and Mikhail Baryshnikov called him the greatest, most original dancer of all time. A perfectionist, Astaire was uninterested in the advice of others, and wrote in […]
Read MoreI keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Quote from a poem in “The Elephant’s Child” by Rudyard Kipling.
Read More“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” Quote from Yahoo! Education, which gives the attribution for this quote as: “William Blake (1757–1827), British poet, painter, engraver. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate 7, “Proverbs of Hell,” (c. 1793), repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957).” I’d add that […]
Read More“Man is not weak. … Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.” Quote from Samuel Johnson.com, which gives the attribution for this quote as “Johnson: Rasselas [Imlac] Note: If you haven’t read it yet, please read this note of caution regarding quotes from Rasselas.” I’d add that mechanics […]
Read MoreIn the course of reviewing a math book written by Danica McKellar, Math Doesn’t Suck, Denise at Let’s Play Math Blog posted a good quote from Mrs. McKellar: But now Danica McKellar’s second book is out, and the first one has been released in paperback. A friendly PR lady emailed to offer me a couple of […]
Read MoreThere is a great deal one can learn about logic and objectivity from mathematics. It is a very important subject to study. In Elementary Mathematical Analysis, Colin Clark says: Suppose we wish to prove: “1 is the largest positive integer.” Let x denote the largest positive integer. Then x>= 1, so that x^2 >= x. […]
Read More“Maybe It’s My Fault” by Michael Jordan
Read More“The capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them” is attributed sometimes to Lenin, sometimes to Stalin. But…in his “On Language” column entitled “Useful Idiots Of the West” (Published: Sunday, April 12, 1987), William Safire says: Librarian [Grant] Harris [of the Library of Congress] got back to me, however, with a lead […]
Read More“[A] piece of literature may be more appropriately compared with a living organism than with a mechanism. As Plato says in one of his dialogues, ‘You will allow that every discourse ought to be constructed like a living organism, having its own body and head and feet; it must have middle and extremities, drawn in […]
Read More“Naturally, we begin by thinking, by asking ourselves questions and endeavoring to answer them.” (p. 101, Writing and Thinking by Norman Foerster and J.M. Steadman, Jr., Houghton Mifflin Company, (c) 1931 Foerster and Steadman.)
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