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"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough." - Toni Morrison

Literary Quote

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - Andre Gide

Illustration by Maurice Denis

Rabbits

No matter how the world has changed for the humans, it is still primitive for wild animals like rabbits. They worry about living eating and breeding, instead of money, losing weight, or iphones. They are very much depended on their intuition like their ancestors from the beginning. But we, the humans, have gotten a lot more complicated, gained a lot of smarts, lost some wisdom. Albert Einstein said “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” If I should only learn one thing from the book Watership Down it is to stay in touch with my intuition as a living being.

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"Strength without sweetness is nothing at all."
- Homework by Helen Simpson, New Yorker June 25, 2007)

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As Alexander Pope said, a little learning is a dangerous thing.

Researchers (Hayes, Bloom) have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. In another genre, the Beatles seemed to burst onto the scene with a string of #1 hits and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. But they had been playing small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg since 1957, and while they had mass appeal early on, their first great critical success, Sgt. Peppers, was released in 1967. Samuel Johnson thought it took longer than ten years: “Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.” And Chaucer complained “the lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”

from article Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig

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Everyone Deserves Music

Spearhead & Michael Franti sing “everyone deserves music, even our worst enemies, they deserve music, sweet music..” ..how nice of them!


Einstein & Faith
By WALTER ISAACSON, Time, Thursday, Apr. 05, 2007

Also check out Dilbert’s blog on April 10, 2007
great articles.. great minds think alike.. =P