08 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Famous Tree Poem
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree. Instills a sense of wonder.
04 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Words are Money of Fools, but Nature Does Not Lie
For between true Science, and erroneous Doctrines, Ignorance is in the middle. Naturall sense and imagination, are not subject to absurdity. Nature it selfe cannot erre: and as men abound in copiousnesses of language; so they become more wise, or more mad than ordinary. Nor is it possible without Letters for any man to become either excellently wise, or (unless his memory be hurt by disease, or ill constitution of organs) excellently foolish. For words are wise men's counters, they do but rec...Famous quote.
18 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Contradictory Aphorism and Biblical Texts
What realm of human endeavour is not morally ambiguous? Even
folk institutions that purport to give us advice on behaviour and
ethics seem fraught with contradictions. Consider aphorisms -
haste makes waste; yes, but a stitch in time saves nine. Better safe
than sorry; but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Where there's
smoke, there's fire; but you can't tell a book by its cover. A penny
saved is a penny earned; but you can't take it with you. He who
hesitates is lost; but fools rush in where...A strong argument for why we should do away with them.
03 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
Computer Programming Brings Complex Thought to the Masses
Omni: Does that limit the number of people who can contribute, or even understand what's being done?
Feynman: Or else somebody will develop a way of thinking about the problems so that we can understand them more easily. Maybe they'll just teach it earlier and earlier. You know, it's not true that what is called "abstruse" math is so difficult. Take something like computer programming, and the careful logic needed for that--the kind of thinking that mama and papa would have said was only for ...A half century ago, the logic required to do computer programming was considered something only professors could do, now everyone does it.