“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
原文 地址 江湖中历来不缺乏传奇。在建筑软件的这片江湖中，风云变幻，豪杰辈出，有两大世家始终屹立不倒——一个来自欧罗巴，名字低调：“图形软件”（Graphisoft），却继承了一身的艺术家气质，手握长剑白衣胜雪；一个来自美利坚，人称“自动桌子”（Autodesk），性格豪放不羁，七种武器样样精通。本文所说的，就是这两大世家的代表人物：ArchiCAD与Revit之间的较量。 这个论题本是老生常谈了，谈到BIM绕不过的就是Revit与ArchiCAD。两者的对比许多帖子都讨论过，但往往大而化之，原则性的东西多，细节的东西少，因此我想再作一次比较，希望能深入一点，具体一点，力争较为全面地反映两者的真实面貌。但这种对比往往两面都不讨好，你懂的，因此本文也多用戏说的语气，我姑妄说之，列位看官也就姑妄听之吧，有不当之处还请多多包涵！ 先介绍一下本人对这两个软件的熟悉程度。我用ArchiCAD有4年了，出过几套施工图，都已竣工，编过一系列向日葵图库，颇受好评，对ArchiCAD的认识偏重于施工图；用Revit一年半，出过四个工程的土建及MEP模型，也用其API编了若干插件，对Revit的认识偏重于建模（包括结构及MEP建模）。应该说对ArchiCAD与Revit的认识都算深入了。 当然两者的深度比较是一个庞大的工程，而且个人看法难免有偏见，技术上也多有误解之处，因此希望各位能指正与补充。 1 软件的思想、架构对比 从软件的历史来说，无疑是ArchiCAD悠久得多，Revit是Autodesk在2002年才收购回来的，但Revit有一个强有力的东家，马上推出“BIM”这个很炫的口号，一下把ArchiCAD沿用多年的“虚拟建筑”这个老老实实的口号给打败了，于是ArchiCAD也只好宣称自己是个BIM软件，搞得在外人看来，倒像是Revit占了先机。 从软件设计的角度来看，两者也是差别巨大的。ArchiCAD从20多年前就致力于三维建筑设计，在这方面积累了足够多的经验，多年来也是沿用其架构做一些小更新、小完善、小整合。从我接触的7.0到最新的14.0，感觉比较大的变动就是10.0版整合PlotMaker、12版支持多核计算提升速度、12版新增幕墙工具、13版团队工作大幅改进。在界面上、使用习惯上一直差别不大，这也在一个侧面反映了ArchiCAD软件设计的一个“精英思路”——我本来就...