Parables about Parabolas

I'm Noah Tye, and this is where I share the things I encounter that stick out to me. Think of it as a collection of newspaper clippings from the web. You can take a look at my own work here.

  1. Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity; gilt in Gorilla Glass and cadmium. And in them we find entertainment in lieu of happiness, and exchanges in lieu of actual connections.
    — Mat Honan
    11 January 2012 - 2 notes
  2. We are not students of some subject matter, but students of problems. And problems may cut right across the borders of any subject matter or discipline.
    — Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations
    27 December 2011

  3. (Source: manifestoesponja, via yingspeaksquietly)

    20 November 2011 - 33 notes
  4. Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
    — Franz Kafka  (via tittysandpancakes)

    (Source: yovita, via heysaturdaysun)

    20 November 2011 - 2,055 notes

  5. Guy Steele on the future of computing

    Two hundred years from now we will have decided that computers aren’t interesting, that they are really boring, and we will move on to something else. It will just be a technology in the background like refrigeration technology now.

    This quote by Guy Steele comes from the panel discussion at the end of Don Knuth’s Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About.

    (Source: noahsreadings)

    22 October 2011 - 1 note
  6. Whenever the creature’s desire for existence is dominant, everything else will have to give way to it. The creator will push all other calls aside and get down to the task in a spirit of mingled delight and exasperation.
    — Dorothy Sayers
    20 October 2011 - 1 note

  7. I started a new blog, wherein I post interesting snippets from the books I’m reading: http://noahsreadings.tumblr.com

    20 October 2011
  8. Never throughout history has a man who lived a life with ease left a name worth remembering.
    — (via heysaturdaysun)

    (Source: tittysandpancakes)

    9 October 2011 - 14 notes
  9. malcolm gladwell - creation myth →

    “This is the legend of Xerox PARC. Jobs is the Biblical Jacob and Xerox is Esau, squandering his birthright for a pittance. In the past thirty years, the legend has been vindicated by history. Xerox, once the darling of the American high-technology community, slipped from its former dominance. Apple is now ascendant, and the demonstration in that room in Palo Alto has come to symbolize the vision and ruthlessness that separate true innovators from also-rans. As with all legends, however, the truth is a bit more complicated.”

    27 September 2011 - 1 note
  10. Dang. Who has time for all that? Basically everyone with discipline.
    — Mark Larson
    26 September 2011