“He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer’s booth at a fair and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
近 30 年戴镜史，分享我的配镜方法和粗浅经验 https://sspai.com/post/79573
Leslie Berlin https://leslieberlinauthor.com/
硅谷历史学家，对硅谷发展做出表述
曾撰写诺伊斯的传记，也是乔布斯Make Something Wonderful的编辑之一Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-inside-story-pre-postmortem
Palm的荣光Loren Pope, former education editor for The New York Times, writes about Reed in Colleges That Change Lives, saying, "If you're a genuine intellectual, love the life of the mind, and want to learn for the sake of learning, the place most likely to empower you is not Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, or Stanford. It is the most intellectual college in the country — Reed in Portland, Oregon."
“Architecture cannot save the world, but it may serve as a good example.” ——Alvar Aalto
The road ahead reaches a turning point in 2024 https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Year-Ahead-2024?WT.mc_id=20231218210000_TYA-2024_BG-FB_&WT.tsrc=BGFB#
活着是为改变世界Beej's Guide to Network Concepts https://beej.us/guide/bgnet0/html/split/index.html
“It’s only for me, and — but I but I personally think of my belief that God exists, although I have no idea what that means. But I believe that there is something beyond human capabilities — and it might be some AI, but whatever, but I do believe that there is something that goes beyond the realm of human understanding, that I can try to learn more about how to resonate with, whatever that being would like me to do.”
“Taste is trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then trying to bring those things into what you are doing.”
Jobs explained in an interview with Businessweek in 2004: “Lots of companies have tons of great engineers and smart people. But ultimately, there needs to be some gravitational force that pulls it all together. Otherwise you can get great pieces of technology all floating around the universe.”
As the great architect Alvar Aalto once stated: “Nearly every design task involves tens, often hundreds, sometimes thousands of different contradictory elements, which are forced into a functional harmony only by man’s will. This harmony cannot be achieved by any other means than those of art.”
“每个人都有得到最好的权利，当代最真诚的优雅来自一个物品被使用的次数。” ——Philippe Starck
后来，团队认识到，游戏要在全球取得成功，必须在美国卖得好，而"美国人喜欢开枪射击"。
创业7年复盘，中美企业服务市场差异浅析 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2EiYgxCC9q6lCIz9V0ZhbA
其中关于美国市场用户专业度高的描述，非常精准Why Legal Immigration Is Impossible for Nearly Everyone https://www.cato.org/blog/why-legal-immigration-nearly-impossible
原来美国移民如此不容易那些背负巨额债务以完成学业的学生，不太可能有远大的理想。因为当人们陷入债务时，他们就没有时间思考其他问题。
债务是一种改造手段，当这些学生毕业时，他们不仅背负着沉重的债务，思想上已经被改造过了，使他们成为消费经济的有效组成部分。 -- 诺姆·乔姆斯基，美国著名学者有一个名词叫做"报复性熬夜"，指的是有些人明明在白天疲劳不堪，晚上却不愿意早睡，宁愿在床上玩手机。
这是因为他们控制不了自己的生活，通过在晚上推迟睡觉，获得一点自己掌控时间的自由感。Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components https://opencircuitsbook.com/
如此精美的电子器件书，应该会让更多人爱上EE吧如果金钱统治世界，那么谁统治金钱？
答案是 那些有能力制造通货膨胀的人统治着金钱。他们首先借钱购买实物资产，通货膨胀之后，再用贬值的钱来还债。Fridman prompts Knuth to talk about how that Tic Tac Toe program had some 1957-style machine learning. “Yeah, that’s right,” Knuth says with a smile (adding “I don’t know how long it’s going to be before the name of our field is changed from computer science to machine learning…”)
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...