André Marques
@andremarques
André Marques
“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
― Miles Davis
― Miles Davis
Poetic Outlaws • Tweet
I give this book to everyone. Tufte works through hundreds of syntax patterns and their effects on the reader, using real examples drawn from every type of writing imaginable.
This book is a fucking joy. https://t.co/3t797GQsYw
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson
But no one has ever started over from scratch by devising a wholly new conceptual structure, an entirely new vessel. Why? Because we cannot step outside of our own thought. We think in terms of the conceptual structure that we happen to have. Thought changes from within, step by step, in the harsh and continuous confrontation with its object: reali
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youtube.com"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra
I've never liked the term "computer science." The main reason I don't like it is that there's no such thing. Computer science is a grab bag of tenuously related areas thrown together by an accident of history, like Yugoslavia.
"LSD is the lazy-man’s Finnegans Wake.”
Marshal McLuhan
to own a dog was aspirational, it signalled you had settled into a neighbourhood, you knew its parks, you maybe had a partner to share the walking and fawning duties, perhaps a precursor to having children.
Various • Dog Hearted: Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions
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