di una citta’…
“D’una città non godi le sette o le settantasette meraviglie, ma la risposta che dà a una tua domanda.” (Italo Calvino)
View ArticleWords and rocks
“Words and rocks contain a language that follows a syntax of splits and ruptures. Look at any word long enough and you will see it open up into … a terrain of particles, each containing its own world...
View Articlechocolate and people
People can be divided in two categories: chocolate eaters and chocolate buyers. To survive in this world one should try hard in not falling in any of these two. Mauro Cherubini, 28-04-2005
View Article1+1=3
(via) Se io ho un euro e tu hai un euro e ce li scambiamo, alla fine restiamo con un euro ciascuno. Ma se io ho un’idea e tu un’altra idea e ce le scambiamo, alla fine ci troveremo con due idee...
View ArticleSpoken words
Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience. Aristotle, De Interpretatione
View Articleabsurd ideas
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” – Albert Einstein
View Articleuniversal functions
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done. – Andy Rooney
View ArticleHuman artifacts
Human beings like to make things: they like to use their hands at least as much as their brains;…If we are to tap the increasing visuality and dynamics of computing in order to open new realms of...
View ArticleDevelopment and concepts
Many developments in algebra depend vitally upon defining the right concept. Algebra, MacLane and Birkhoff
View ArticleCiviltà e Animali
Il grado di civiltà di un popolo si misura dal modo in cui tratta gli animali. Mohandas K. Gandhi
View ArticleLa nave al cuoco
La nave e’ ormai in preda al cuoco di bordo e cio’ che trasmette al microfono del comandante non e’ piu’ la rotta, ma cio’ che mangeremo domani. S.Kierkegaard
View ArticleAbout time
I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline. Duke Ellington, jazz pianist, composer, and conductor (1899-1974)
View ArticleAtheists and bombs
Have you ever seen a headline that read: “Atheist militants detonate bomb in city café” -? Doug Stanhope
View ArticleMarcher à mon aise
J’aime à marcher a mon aise, et m’arrêter quand il me plaît. La vie ambulante est celle qu’il me faut. Faire route à pied par un beau temps, dans un beau pays, sans être pressé, et avoir pour terme de...
View Articletechnology and common sense
… technology tends to overwhelm common sense [D.A. Freedman]
View Articlechanging the world
“Don’t ever think that a small group of conscious and dedicated people aren’t able to change the world. In fact this is the way it always happened!” Margaret Mead
View ArticleIf any man would come after me
“If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me” (Mt 16:24). John Paul II, Good Friday evening, 2000
View ArticleCulture of death
… In fact, while the climate of widespread moral uncertainty can in some way be explained by the multiplicity and gravity of today’s social problems, and these can sometimes mitigate the subjective...
View ArticlePerché una società vada bene
“perché una società vada bene, si muova nel progresso, nel’esaltazione dei valori della famiglia, dello spirito, del bene, dell’amicizia, perché prosperi senza contrasti tra i vari consociati, per...
View Articleaction and contemplation
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye … The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. (Jacob Bronowski, The...
View Articlethe way to pilgrimage
…it is not surprising that the “Way to Santiago” has been sometimes considered as an example of the Church’s pilgrimage on its journey towards the heavenly city. It is a path of prayer and penance, of...
View ArticleThe universal underlying truth
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco
View ArticleSpeech in their hands
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. The Winter’s Tale (First Gentleman at V, ii) Shakespeare
View ArticleMaps are power
Pour l’enfant, amoureux de cartes et d’estampes, L’univers est égal à son vaste appétit. –Charles Baudelaire
View Articlephysical evidence
We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic...
View ArticleLanguage understanding
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical investigations
View Articleimmutable truth
We cannot say anymore that the immutable is truth, and that the mobile, transitory is appearance. Adorno (1973:361)
View Articlepeople tend to stick to their own size
One reason Helena and I would never be close friends is that I am about half tall as she. People tend to stick to their own size group because it’s easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically...
View ArticleLaw of Simplicity
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful. John Maeda
View ArticleNatural environment
“When anyone says the word ‘nature’, we should ask the question, ‘Which nature?’ Naturally fertilized cabbage? Nature as it is, industrially lacerated? Country life during the 1950s (as it is...
View Articletheory and research
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may be cast. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
View Articleabout intelligence and stupidity
“La tontería es infinitamente mas interesante que la inteligencia. La tontería no tiene límites, la integencia si” Claude Chabrol
View Articlesociety and profits
It is not alway what you can take out of society that counts, but what you can put in. Tim Berners-Lee
View Articlevision
Quiero un río de manzanas y sus orillas quiero ver a toda la población del mundo unida, reunida, en el acto mas simple de la tierra, mordiendo una manzana. P. Neruda, 1951
View Articlespeaking out loud
“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.” Hermann Hesse
View Articleexperience
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. Randy Paush, 2006
View Articlemen and dreams
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. William Shakespeare
View ArticleThe use of statistics
Mark Twain (1924) probably had politicians in mind when he reiterated Disraeli’s famous remark (”There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics”). Scientists, we hope, would never use...
View Articlediscovering the limits
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” —Arthur C. Clark
View Articlethe reasonable man
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. George Bernard-Shaw
View Articlemedication compliance
Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them. — C. Everett Koop, M.D.
View ArticlePolitica e Mafia
Politica e mafia sono due poteri che vivono sul controllo dello stesso territorio. O si fanno la guerra o si mettono d’accordo. Paolo Borsellino
View Articlehuman needs
Thus man is a perpetually wanting animal. Ordinarily the satisfaction of these wants is not altogether mutually exclusive, but only tends to be. The average member of our society is most often...
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