“The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.” StillsPowerfulHigherToolsLogicRemainsTechniqueCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningDimensionsMost PowerfulOntology Author:Thomas Banchoff
“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.” PeopleWayGivingTryingFirstsStillsImportantHardHelpingFormThreeUnderstandingBreakMissingFiguresObjectsMaterialsToolsDirectPressesBehaveDigitalQuestsImpressiveRendering Author:Jonathan Ive
“I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.” YearsStillsHappenedHeardHavensToolsApplesEngineeringReverseHacksServerReverse Engineering Author:Jon Lech Johansen
“The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth's crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.” StillsLightEarthImpossiblePossibilityThousandComputerFlowToolsWavePatternsRevelationsExplorationCaptureFrontiersRipeTelescopesSymmetryMicroscopesElementals Author:John Paul Caponigro
“The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.” PeopleWayMindChildrenStillsUseSeemsLostWalksGloryToolsContraryBelieverManageExpensesDiminishSkeptic Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming off his best [offensive] season, but we still think there is some ceiling on him. He has outstanding makeup and calls a good game. [He's] a solid receiver with a plus arm, and he's going to be coming to camp with a chance to open some eyes.” ThinkingStillsEyeGamesChanceArmsToolsSeasonsExcellentMakeupPlusCampsOffensiveOutstandingCeilingsReceiverCatchersJoshBards Author:Theo Epstein