Submitted by egdaylight on
Dated:
31 May 2022 -- 17 October 2023
- In the professional activities of tightly structured disciplines, conformity is more highly valued than originality; or, rather, originality is tolerated only for as long as it reinforces the core values of a department. (S. Toulmin)
- Repetition renders the ridiculous reasonable. (N. J. Wildberger)
- Do only what only you can do. (E. W. Dijkstra)
- Every smart person wants to be corrected, not admired. (M. Minsky)
- The emperor wearing no clothes wants to be admired, not corrected. (My modification)
- When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide. (E. W. Dijkstra)
- When listening to logicians, we can ignore the symbols but should watch the bonding to physics. (My making)
- Separating science from the pinnacle of practice, renders a rudimentary recital. (My making)
- Equating science with engineering, renders a rudimentary recital. (My making)
- At your highest moment be careful, that's when the devil comes for you. (D. Washington)
- Peace always comes after war, with finite delay. (My making)
- War always comes after peace, with potentially infinite delay. (My making)
- Yellow is better than yellow coffee, even in principle. (Nonsense, my making)
- The halting problem is practically unsolvable, even in principle. (Nonsense, your making)
- Narrating without clothes renders communication all in yellow reasonable. (My making)
- You can only run your own race. (O. Winfrey)
- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. (B. Fuller)
- Don't ask what historians can do for Turing, ask what Turing did for historians. (my making; inspired by JFK)
- The organization of late twentieth century universities has encouraged a narrowness of preoccupations that has ended by rewarding participants who remain closest to the middle of their chosen intellectual road. (S. Toulmin)
- We all live in a yellow submarine. (The Beatles)
- Some of us live in a Turing machine, yellow or not. (My making)
- Quantum Turing Machines, the Very Idea (My making)
- Big Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Ptw0r0Pq0
