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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)

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Words 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...

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chocolate 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

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1+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...

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Spoken words

Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience. Aristotle, De Interpretatione

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absurd ideas

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” – Albert Einstein

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unexpected

“Chi non si aspetta l’inaspettato non troverà la verità”. –Eraclito

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universal 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

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Human 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...

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Development and concepts

Many developments in algebra depend vitally upon defining the right concept. Algebra, MacLane and Birkhoff

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Civiltà e Animali

Il grado di civiltà di un popolo si misura dal modo in cui tratta gli animali. Mohandas K. Gandhi

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La 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

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About time

I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline. Duke Ellington, jazz pianist, composer, and conductor (1899-1974)

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Atheists and bombs

Have you ever seen a headline that read: “Atheist militants detonate bomb in city café” -? Doug Stanhope

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Marcher 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...

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technology and common sense

… technology tends to overwhelm common sense [D.A. Freedman]

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changing 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

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If 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

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Culture 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...

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Perché 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...

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action 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...

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the 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...

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The 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

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Speech in their hands

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. The Winter’s Tale (First Gentleman at V, ii) Shakespeare

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Maps are power

Pour l’enfant, amoureux de cartes et d’estampes, L’univers est égal à son vaste appétit. –Charles Baudelaire

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physical 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...

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Language understanding

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical investigations

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thinking and doing

Don’t think, try! Jonh Hunter

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immutable truth

We cannot say anymore that the immutable is truth, and that the mobile, transitory is appearance. Adorno (1973:361)

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obvious facts

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact” (Sherlock Holmes)

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people 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...

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Law of Simplicity

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful. John Maeda

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Natural 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...

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theory 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

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about intelligence and stupidity

“La tontería es infinitamente mas interesante que la inteligencia. La tontería no tiene límites, la integencia si” Claude Chabrol

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society and profits

It is not alway what you can take out of society that counts, but what you can put in. Tim Berners-Lee

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vision

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

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speaking out loud

“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.” Hermann Hesse

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experience

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. Randy Paush, 2006

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men and dreams

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. William Shakespeare

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The 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...

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discovering the limits

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” —Arthur C. Clark

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the 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

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medication compliance

Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them. — C. Everett Koop, M.D.

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Politica 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

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human 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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