“Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a graceful and a wise moral - indulged beneath a southern sky, and all deserving, the phrase applied to it - the philosophy of the garden.” LifePhilosophyLife IsSpeakEnjoyForgetMoralWiseSkyFutureGardenAncientPhrasesSouthernLife Is ShortDeserving Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.” PeoplePhilosophyMomentsCharacterAmericaRememberFallLandChildhoodFalling In LovePhrasesAbstractFortyFlawsCivilizedSparesStampsIdlenessSingle MomPhilosophy Of ReligionPrerequisitesSpare TimeCharacter Flaws Book:Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this - what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as 'mankind's need for metaphysics.'” PeopleWorldNeedsWritingHas BeensRealPhilosophyHumanityAsksFeltInterestAnswersBehindsMankindCuriosityPhilosopherPhrasesMetaphysicsCravingCompulsionReally MeanBabyhood Author:Bryan Magee
“The catchall phrase big data means three things. First, it is a bundle of technologies. Second, it is a potential revolution in measurement. And third, it is a point of view, or philosophy, about how decisions will be-and perhaps should be-made in the future” ShouldFirstsMeanMadePhilosophyBigsThreeDecisionViewsTechnologyRevolutionThirdsIntuitionPoint Of ViewDataPhrasesDecision MakingThree ThingsMeasurementBundles Author:Steve Lohr