“We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.” ——Lloyd Reynolds, Reed professor & calligraphy instructor
I wish everyone could taste the excitement, the intensity that lies at the heart of true education, whether it takes place reading Plato’s Republic on the Great Lawn or wrestling with Zen koans on a TriMet bus. I wish everyone could have the time and space to kindle the spark of inspiration into a fire. And when it comes to reading—and writing—job applications, I wish everyone could remember that we, too, are unfinished projects, first drafts, rough cuts, works in progress. The main difference is that some of us have been going at it longer than others.
The Experimental Polymath https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/march2013/articles/web_special/crandall.html
Professor Richard E. Crandall的纪念文章“Never be so busy as not to think of others.” ——Mother Teresa
“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse.” ——Friedrich Nietzsche
Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently. And it’s that process that is the magic.
——Steve JobsSpicetify https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli
Command-line tool to customize Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux.Steve Jobs: I actually think there's actually very little distinction between an artist and a scientist or engineer of the highest calibre. I've never had a distinction in my mind between those two types of people. They've just been to me people who pursue different paths but basically kind of headed to the same goal which is to express something of what they perceive to be the truth around them so that others can benefit by it.
The Newton was a terrific idea, but it was too far ahead of its time. The Newton actually saved Apple from going bankrupt. Most people don’t realize in order to build Newton, we had to build a new generation microprocessor. We joined together with Olivetti and a man named Herman Hauser, who had started Acorn computer over in the U.K. out of Cambridge university. And Herman designed the ARM processor, and Apple and Olivetti funded it. Apple and Olivetti owned 47 percent of the company and Herman owned the rest. It was designed around Newton, around a world where small miniaturized devices with lots of graphics, intensive subroutines and all of that sort of stuff… when Apple got into desperate financial situation, it sold its interest in ARM for $800 million. If it had kept it, the company went on to become an $8 or $10 billion company. It’s worth a lot more today. That’s what gave Apple the cash to stay alive.
Henry Adams, “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
超喜欢知乎马亚南的翻译，“师之影响永恒，断不知其影响竟止于何处。”
有种中华特有的美感“Think Different"：So hopefully what you’ve seen here today are some beginning steps that give you some confidence that we, too, are going to think differently, and serve the people that have been buying our products since the beginning. Because a lot of times people think that they’re crazy. But in that craziness, we see genius, and those are the people we’re making tools for.
华为励志音乐短片《Dream It Possible》【中英双字】 https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14x411C7oZ/
原来这首歌是华为出的汉字光标准化和数字化就花了一百多年，它能在 AI 时代存续吗？丨晚点周末 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QxAnhtitA8qWIfY34QQlSA
原来林语堂如此有情怀，更加敬佩THE AHWAHNEE HOTEL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0_WZsjLgQU
大開眼戒（Eyes Wide Shut）裡的明示與暗示 https://reading-in-rain.medium.com/聖誕片單-分析翻譯-大開眼戒-eyes-wide-shut-裡的明示與暗示-上-2f5d7db05691
https://reading-in-rain.medium.com/聖誕片單-分析翻譯-大開眼戒-eyes-wide-shut-裡的明示與暗示-中-bcf01df402b8
https://reading-in-rain.medium.com/聖誕片單-分析翻譯-大開眼戒-eyes-wide-shut-裡的明示與暗示-下-b97f6a11cd85The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/tools-design-process/?profile=intercom
思路，工具，执行，成果The Stanley Kubrick Archives https://www.taschen.com/en/books/film/45439/the-stanley-kubrick-archives
库布里克巨著Leon Vitali: Stanley Kubrick’s Right Hand Man https://www.bradschreiber.com/selected-writing/leon-vitali-stanley-kubricks-right-hand-man
原来他对库布里克如此重要Behind the Mask of Corruption https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/04/06/behind-the-mask-of-corruption/
财新记者王和岩：庸常的人生需要新闻给予的快乐 https://www.wenxuecity.com/news/2024/01/14/125367542.html
财新网：谷俊山和“军盾一号” https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/402017.html
撒切尔夫人曾说：你不要担心中国，因为中国只能出口玩具、计算机和电视机，不能出口思想。
中国人自古以来，春秋时好一些，从汉代以后，膝软如棉，脸厚如铁。凡是膝盖软如棉的人必定脸皮厚如铁。什么都可以不要，脸皮能不厚吗？什么东西成堆？凡是没有力量的东西成堆，绵羊成堆，老虎狮子从来都是独居的。我希望你们成为学术界的老虎和狮子，不要成为绵羊。
Jobs Talks About His Rise and Fall https://www.newsweek.com/jobs-talks-about-his-rise-and-fall-207016
FolderPaint https://github.com/MichaelTr7/FolderPaint Folder colour changing application for macOS. 乔布斯说：“对于我和苹果公司的许多人来说，索尼的盛田昭夫是最大的灵感来源之一。我希望我们今天的所想所为能让他会心一笑。” 乔布斯甚至从索尼挖走了一位顶级设计师。哈特穆特·艾斯林格被苹果挖走前，已在 100 多种索尼产品的创造中发挥了重要作用。 供职于索尼时，艾斯林格所在的设计工作室与管理办公室和工厂车间享有同等地位。他说，这样有助于促进公司生产和设计团队之间在一定程度上达成团结，这正是乔布斯试图重建的团结。 艾斯林格指出：“乔布斯有能力洞察事物的好坏，却不知道如何实现以及如何通过组织去构建。因此，我们向苹果提出的第一个建议是，赋予设计师一定的话语权。” 斯卡利表示，乔布斯和盛田之间的深厚友谊和相互敬重可以归结为对于设计的共同热忱。 “他们以非常积极的方式产生了共鸣”，斯卡利说，“两位来自不同文化背景的创始人共聚一堂，这是非常难能可贵的。他们讨论设计原则，却从不谈及商业模式。” “Think of your life as a rainbow arcing across the horizon of this world. You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear.” City Lights Bookstore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Lights_Bookstore?useskin=vector 旧金山的城市之光独立书店 Vesuvio Cafe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesuvio_Cafe?useskin=vector 好奇怪，这家Cafe居然没有太多的介绍 “One of the things that I was fortunate of was to see and understand the context of San Francisco through the eyes of Steve Jobs,” Mr. Ive said. “He kn...