“We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.” BeautifulJoyComputerIntellectualLosingTrackComputer ScienceReviveVastness Author:Jaron Lanier
“It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.” HumansHas BeensBeautifulLife IsSpiritPassionEffectsPoetGeniusIntellectualOriginalsUnityProofInstantMultitudesReducingAwakenedSuccessionIntellectual Life Book:Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.” ThinkingMenArtAgeBeautifulLiteratureSoundFriendshipIntellectualTraditionPerformancesRipeBrethren Book:The Intellectual Life Source: The Intellectual Life