February 2012
26 posts
“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five...”
– Edward Abbey. (via anarchyagogo)
“Students today are over $1 trillion in debt. That’s more than credit card debt....”
– Noam Chomsky (via azspot)
“Moore’s three-dimensional law is a remarkable “epiphenomenon” … a statistical...”
– Doug Hofstadter, Moore’s Law, Artificial Evolution, and the Fate of Humanity
grâce à Virgil
(via isomorphismes)
January 2012
25 posts
Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Sets Sights on... →
“Mr. Thrun told the crowd his move was motivated in part by teaching practices that evolved too slowly to be effective. During the era when universities were born, “the lecture was the most effective way to convey information. We had the industrialization, we had the invention of celluloid, of digitial media, and, miraculously, professors today teach exactly the same way they taught a thousand...
“The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single...”
– Carl Sagan (via crookedindifference)