“If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.” IfsWorldWould BeCultureChanceSecretSunPopsPleasantPop CultureJavaSecret Knowledge Author:Alan Kay
“Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.” ThinkingFeelsMadeDifferentLyingValuesCultureEvilFatherChanceRacePerspectiveFruitDetailsGood And EvilSoleUglinessOur FatherLinkages Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories
“It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.” WayArtUseFormCultureChanceDangerMaterialsHighestLocalsImitating Author:Miles Franklin
“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.” MenWorldHumansHas BeensMadeSelfInspirationCultureLeftChanceResultsEmotionKnownTechnologyFiveGreaterMankindPercentCapacityMiseryFiftyEthicalStabilityVagueIntuitive Book:The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction