A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.
A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.
Man discourtheth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
There is nothing which deceives us as much as out own judgement.
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
Truth was the only daughter of time.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Bountiful nature has provided that in all parts of the world you will find something to imitate
The intellect will always profit by the acquisition of any knowledge whatsoever, for thus what is useless will be expelled from it, and what is fruitful will remain. It is impossible either to hate or to love a thing without first acquiring knowledge of it.
Avoid studies the result of which will die together with him who studied.
So, today is (sort of) Leonardo Da Vinci’s birthday. I consider him to be a pioneer of the note content type (AKA somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, usually with no title). So, to celebrate his birthday, I’m going to be posting some of his (translated) notes from Thoughts on Art and Life.
The source text I’m using is the gutenberg txt translation.
Faviki.com looks like an interesting take on tagging — the advantage being that everyone shares the same tags, the problem being that everyone shares the same tags.
Got a fun little project planned for tomorrow to celebrate a certain someone's birthday.
14844 #steps today — a comforting return to form after a couple of days of forgetting to record/my pedometer not working for some reason.
New theory: ultimately, the enemy is always assumption.
#listening to “The Great Fishfinger Disaster” by Hanging Johnny. Mentally substituting “fiskibollur”, which I have just eaten for the first time.
Need to use require.js to load a bunch of scripts compiled via assetic into a PHP file, annoyed by auto-append of .js, don’t want to set up irritating routing? Add a ? to the URL, require.js will add a .js to the query string, loading the file correctly.
Moved in to my more permanent apartment. It feels strange to move my stuff into a room rich with the owners identity — photos, clothes, book/film collection.
Neighbours pumping out Gangnam style. Not original, heavily remixed/cut up. Might be a late night.