Quotes
Here are quotes that I have collected, but have nowhere else to place purposefully at the moment:
cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Cicero
steve brown
“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you learn to do it well.”
Steve Brown
chopin
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
Chopin
jack kerouac
“One day I will find the right words and they will be simple”
Jack Kerouac
latin
Omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to love
einstein
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
Albert Einstein
h ford
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
H. Ford
porter
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
M.E. Porter
sun tzu
If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win numerous battles without jeopardy.
Sun Tzu
fp brooks
Representation is the essence of programming.
F.P. Brooks, 1975
a turing
The machine can alter the scanned symbol and its behavior is in part determined by that symbol, but the symbols on the tape elsewhere do not affect the behavior of the machine.
“Intelligent Machinery,” A.M.Turing, 1948
reinhold niebuhr
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr
cal newport
“Deep Work — Professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit.”
Cal Newport
comparison
“Comparison is the thief of joy”
Theodore Roosevelt
Backlinks (2)
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” — Chuck Palahniuk
Originally the AI suffix stood for archived intellect, however these days it has concretised to becoming an Augmenting Infrastructure — a place from which to branch out in many directions.
Within this site you will find self-contained material in the form of project posts and blog posts, but also external links 1 to other work – my own as well as not.
2. Words /words/
whining, whistling – whispering,
when worlds waver
which wonders weigh?
wither, weeping woes wane¡
“One cannot think without writing.”—Luhmann1, 1992
bookbot!
A full stack, React web-app that injects Public Domain Books into your context window. ChatGPT4o-mini with extra steps :D
bookshelf
all of these books have been profoundly influential in sculpting my own character. I also believe these books–but not only2–these books, have the capacity to “leverage” any other human to the tits.