“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
这是我阅读《MongoDB权威指南》的学习笔记，前七章侧重在开发者角度谈MongoDB,后面才是运维管理者角度 一. 理论部分 入门 文档：多个键及其关联的值有序地放置在一起便是文档 集合：一组文档 虽然子集合没有特别的地方，但还是很有用，很多MongoDB工具中都包含子集合 GridFS是一种存储大文件的协议，使用子集合来存储文件的元数据，这样就与内容块分开了 MongoDB的Web控制台通过子集合的方式将数据组织在DBTOP部分 绝大多数驱动程序都提供语法糖，为访问指定集合的子集合提供方便。例如：在数据库shell里面，db.blog代表blog集合，db.blog.posts代表blog.posts集合 在MongoDB中使用子集合来组织数据是很好的方法，在此强烈推荐 数据类型 JSON表现力也有限制，因为只有null,布尔，数字，字符串，数组和对象几种类型， MongoDB保留JSON键值对基础上，增添了其他一些数据类型 使用GridFS存储文件有如下原因： 会直接利用业已建立的复制或分片机制，所以对于文件存储来说故障恢复和扩展都很容易 可以避免用户上传内容的文件系统出现的某些问题 不产生磁盘碎片，因为MongoDB分配数据文件空间以2GB为一块 开发者角度到此为止，下一篇是运维角度的学习