three link thurs: 2007-08-02

Aug 02, 2007 - 05:36
Categories: philosophy

Stuff (Paul Graham)
Every thing you own takes energy away from you. Some give more than they take. Those are the only things worth having.
Time as Chimera (How to Save the World)
When we measure our accomplishments, the progress of our lives, in terms of clock time, what happens when we find that that measure is a chimera (="a fanciful mental illusion")?
An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth (Bruce Mau Design)
4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).
27. Read only left-hand pages.
29. Think with your mind. Forget technology.
39. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms.

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Re: Time as Chimera

"We . . . have dreamt the world. We have dreamt is as firm, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and durable in time; but in its architecture we have allowed tenuous and eternal crevices of unreason which tell us it is false."

--Borges, Labyrinths

"Knowledge increases unreality."

--Yeats

-- Jenita (August 4, 2007 9:00 AM)


Those are raw, Miss Jenita.

-- jeffschuler (August 4, 2007 3:20 PM)


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