Harold Finch
- Person of Interest S02E11 - Pi (Adapted for text length limits)
Pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, keeps on going forever, without ever repeating. Contained within this string of decimals is every single other number. And if you convert these decimals into letters you would have every word that ever existed in every possible combination, your entire life story from beginning to end, everything we ever say or do. All of the world's infinite possibilities rest within this one simple circle.
Ray Bradbury
- Farenheit 451 - Nozioni vs Pensiero Critico
Riempi loro i crani di dati non combustibili, imbottiscili di fatti al punto che non si possano più muovere tanto son pieni, ma sicuri d'essere veramente bene informati. Dopo di che avranno la certezza di pensare, la sensazione del movimento, quando in realtà sono fermi come un macigno.
Oscar Wilde
- Esperienze
Rimpiangere le proprie esperienze significa arrestare il proprio sviluppo. Rimpiangere le proprie esperienze significa porre una menzogna sulle labbra della propria vita. È quasi come negare l'esistenza dell'anima.
eagertyper
- About learning to touch type
I started to steadily increase my speed and accuracy only when I decided to literally paint my keyboard's keys in different colors. I used a touch typing keyboard map in which each finger works in a different section of the keyboard, and used a different color for each finger and its corresponding keys. Every time I am in doubt about which finger to use, I take a quick look at my keyboard and get back in track. It makes me not yet very fast, but it helps while being in the learning phase.
Epicurus (341–270 BC)
- About friendship
Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. The same conviction which inspires confidence that nothing we have to fear is eternal or even of long duration, also enables us to see that even in our limited conditions of life nothing enhances our security so much as friendship.
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- Altruism
Altruism is the principle and moral practice of concern for happiness of other human beings or animals. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures and a core aspect of various religious traditions and secular worldviews. Altruism in biological observations is intended as an individual performing an action which is at a cost to themselves but benefits another third-party individual without the expectation of reciprocity or compensation for that action.
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- Patience
Patience is the ability to endure difficult circumstances such as perseverance in the face of delay, tolerance of provocation without responding in annoyance or forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties. Patience is the level of endurance one can have before negativity. In psychology, patience is studied as a decision-making problem, involving the choice of either a small reward in the short-term, versus a more valuable reward in the long-term.
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- Courage
Courage (also called bravery or valour) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Physical courage is bravery in the face of physical pain, hardship, death or threat of death, while moral courage is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, discouragement, or personal loss.
Misfits
- Nathan Young - Youth
We're young. We had it all. We fucked up bigger and better than any generation that came before us. We're screw-ups. I'm a screw-up and I plan to be a screw-up until my late 20s, maybe even my early 30s.
Mary Shelley
- Frankenstein - Discovering ways to communicate
By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment. I found that people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds. I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes, produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers. This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it. But I was baffled in every attempt I made for this purpose.
David Hume
- A Treatise of Human Nature - Impressions and Ideas
All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call impressions and ideas. The difference between these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness. Those perceptions which enter with most force and violence we may name impressions; by ideas I mean the faint images of these in thinking and reasoning.
Rene Descartes
- Discourse on the Method
To be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
H.G. Wells
- The Time Machine - About Aristocracy
The great triumph of Humanity I had dreamed of took a different shape in my mind. It had been no such triumph of moral education and general co-operation as I had imagined. Instead, I saw a real aristocracy, armed with a perfected science and working to a logical conclusion the industrial system of today. Its triumph had not been simply a triumph over Nature, but a triumph over Nature and the fellow-man.
