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Quotes on Models and Their Uses
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“highest happiness and deepest misery” — having children?
“There is no happiness save in understanding the whole”
‘We are as gods,’ Stewart Brand famously told his readers, ‘and we might as well get good at it.’
Missing the Point
The Point is shrouded, enclosed by cloud.
Familiar curve of land juts straight out
into white void whose silence is belied
with rhythm of rocks beat by incoming tide.
I see where the land heads but not where it ends
and I can’t help but think of conversations with friends
which all seemed to take the same form.
Once again I start
for the
poetry and gold and dross
That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child. From this high audacious duty the moderns are fleeing on every side; and the only excuse for them is, (of course,) that their modern philosophies are so half-baked and hypothetical that they cannot convince themselves enough to convince
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
Reflection
The inconstant queen
relents her reign,
begins to cloak
illumined face
in shadow yet again,
an ever creeping
shadow deep’ning
darkest of dark nights
when face is hid
from all the world
and all celestial lights,
till she begins
to lift full veil
and once more deigns
to claim her rule,
mutable mind
marking months since
time immemorial.
poetry and gold and dross
Source: technopoly by Neil postman
We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it. We now add that we must be fond of another world (real or imaginary) in order to have something to change it to. We need not debate about the mere words evolution or progress: personally I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form. It implies that we are trying to shape
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
There is perhaps no worse advice, nine times out of ten, than the advice to do the work that’s nearest.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
we removed the AI-powered search from our docs because it was unreliable and made up fake features
still waiting for the production-grade llm that can reliably produce data without hallucinations
long way to go
Chris Frantzx.comY Combinator winner/CEO, developing a new email marketing system.