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.
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.
Yet another reason why HTML+microformats2 is the way forward for feeds on the web:
“Most people don’t know what HTML is and yet are able to consume pages without caring much.”
/by Julien Genestoux (source)
Fascinating — Konrad Lorenz compares cultural revolution with exoskeleton-clad Arthropods shedding their shells:
The act of demolishing carefully erected structures, though indispensable if better adapted ones are to arise, is always followed by a period of vulnerability.
#reading On Aggression
The more interwoven the relationship between the appearance and the manufacturing process is, the more honest the material.
Too right. I love the way @kevingoldman advocates the use of movement, state and microcopy for emotive design on the web.
[adding web actions support] took me five minutes and two lines of code.
This is what we like to hear! Nice one Laurent Eschenauer! (source)
P.S. 5 mins and 2 lines of declarative HTML! Beat that, web intents/activities
“…and Jake the Human, the fun will never end, it’s #adventuretime”
Brother: “The fun has to end because one of them will die
” #killjoy
The single greatest thing about the social web is how it has forced people to overcome their technophobias in order to connect with other humans.
/by Chris Messina (source)
If content is important to you, keep it close. If your content is important to others, keep it close and well backed up.
by Drew McLellan (source) #indieweb
Empower yourself. Your friends. Your community. But push yourself to go further, because you can.
– Tantek Çelik (source)
pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children
Every now and again the otherwise banal PHP docs make me laugh.