You are no liars, I am a liar.
Changing assumptions
November 15th, 2009Change an assumption
and save the world.— Heinz von Foerster, 1970
Quoted after Paul Schröder who 2009-11-14 at the Heinz von Foerster Congress 09 said he found this quote several times in his notes.
The Big Red Button
October 18th, 2009[Update 2019-07-20: Game removed since it relied on ancient technology. The YouTube video do not push the big red button shows it in action.]
Turning together with/out words
September 7th, 2009Our only apparently unique invention is written language, and there’s lots of evidence that it’s the least effective form of communication we have, and the form most prone to misunderstanding
writes Dave Pollard in his recent blog post Turning Together Without Words.
History of history
July 23rd, 2009The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
(This quote and variations of it can be found easily.) Considering the fact that each and everyone seems to stumble over this insight sooner or later it could well be based on a wee bit of eternal truth. However, if it is, it is hiding it very well. Indeed, what it shows is that history of history is unknown. Speaking of learning, it is not taught either.
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Almost unique
June 16th, 2009She: I discovered that we are almost unique.
He: Define almost!
She: The problem is not the almost, the problem is the unique.
Though, of course, it is not the unique problem, but almost!
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Subjects of matter
February 8th, 2009
Cartoon by Hugh Macleod
“People matter. Objects don’t,”
he wrote on an object,
with a liar’s smile
on his face.
