“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
乔布斯经典照片集 坐在麗莎電腦旁。他說：「毕加索曾說：「好的藝術家懂得模仿，佛大的藝術家善於偷取。」因此，窃取偉大的點子沒有什麼好羞耻的。 與蓋茲在電話中達成協議：「比爾，謝謝你支持蘋果。因為你的支持，世界將變得更美好。」 1997年蘋果在波士頓舉行的麥金塔世界大會，蓋茲透過衛星連線在巨大的螢幕上出現。質伯斯說：「我真是笨死了，竟然讓蓋兹以這種方式現身。他讓我看起來好沙小。」 ──时刻自省 前言 The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. 只有那些瘋狂到以為自己可以改變世界的人， 才能改變這個世界。 這麼些年來，賈伯斯說起話來的認真與專注態度，著實打動不少人。我們一直保持連絡，即使在他被逐出蘋果之後，我們還有來往。每次他有新產品要推出時，像 NeXT 電腦或皮克斯 (Pixar）的電影，他就會來找我。他常帶我去曼哈頓下城一家壽司店用餐，講起他的產品，渾身散發出光和熱，眉飛色舞的說這是他登峰造極之作。我喜歡這個人。 ──对自己产品深深的爱 他的堅持教我疑惑。人人都知道賈伯斯不道餘力捍衛隱私， 而且我不知道他是否看過我寫的任何一本傳記。我還是不敢立刻答應，只說或許再等等。然而到了 2009年，我接到他太太蘿琳． 鮑威爾打來的電話。她直截了當說：「如果你還想為史帝夫寫傳，最好趕快動筆。」這是他第二次因病向公司請長假。我坦言他早在2004 年得知自己罹患胰臟癌的時候就曾主動邀我寫傳，但我當時對他罹癌的事一無所知。蘿琳解釋說，他們盡量保密，因此當時根本沒幾個人知道。他是在動手術的前夕打電話給我的。 ──和Make Something Wonderful对照起来看 他還說，自從他回到蘋果重新掌權，這十二年來是他創造新產品的高峰期，但他還有更重要的目標，也就是效法惠普的惠立和普克（David Packard），締造一家創新動力無限的公司，進而超越惠普。 ──苹果公司才是乔布斯最得意的产品 他說：「我一直認為，自己是個偏向人文的孩子，但我也喜歡電子的東西。後來，我讀到寶麗來(Polaroid）創辦人蘭德 (Edwin Land）曾說過，一個人能站在人文和科學的交會口，兼容贯通，才是真正的人才。在那當下，我决定要當這樣的人。」他似乎在暗示我，這可以做為傳...