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Yo mama so stupid, she thinks Cold War was against global warming. Yo mama so stupid, she thinks steganography is fast writing.
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I have noticed that everyone who is for abortion, has already been born. Ronald Reagan
I have noticed that even the most passionate copyright defenders use the alphabet free of charge. Ivan Ianakiev Real people are like real numbers: almost all of them are supposedly normal, but if you want to point which well known ones are, you'll face great difficulties.
Реалните хора са като реалните числа: уж почти всички са нормални, но aко се наложи да посочиш кои от известните са такива, ще срещнеш големи трудности. Q: Which set contains all newly minted politicians, writers and insurance salespeople?
A: The set of those who believe their fairy tales can make our lives better. Q: Which set contains all seasoned politicians, writers and insurance salespeople? A: The set of those who can make us believe their fairy tales make our lives better. Q: If you are so smart, why aren't you rich?
A: Because I prefer giving my smarts for free to selling them below cost. Generally, nobody wants to hear excuses, but everybody hears themselves producing some.
Уж никой не иска да чува оправдания, пък всеки се чува как ги изрича. "The Industrial Revolution made England richer," wrote famous biographer and useful idiot* Walter Isaacson in an article for the Financial Times. Richer than whom, Walter? How big, do you think, is the wealth of England and what method do you use for your estimate?
Countries are not rich, people are. Great minds and patriots like Alan Turing** refused to equate the wealth of the citizens with the wealth of the motherland. That is why, at the beginning of the Second World War, Turing turned his savings into silver bars and buried them in the forest: he was afraid that at some point the government might imagine that there is such an equality and confiscate his savings. _________________________________________________________________ * i.e. uncritical apologist for industrial capitalism ** who saved more lives in World War II than anyone else (according to Churchill) In a capitalist and democratic society, they say, you are free to choose. Nonsense! You can choose (and buy) any car you want, but the choice of where to park it is extremely limited.
"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing," Anaïs Nin used to say. Some people are "lucky" enough to have a super-stable self and see the same things. Not me.
I've seen Coen brothers' version of True Grit twice, but on this third viewing, at the very beginning of the film, I see Hailee Steinfeld with new eyes. Her look is classic American, her family name is Jewish. But today I see something African in her face. I stop the movie and dig into Wikipedia. This is how I learn her maternal grandfather was half African American. The bottom line is that I am much different today than I was at the time of the previous viewings. And thank God for that. "If at 50 you see things the way you saw them at 20, you've wasted 30 years of your life," Muhammad Ali used to say. "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography," Ambrose Bierce used to say. I'd say something similar: "War is God's way of teaching Russians history. How else would they learn that Ukrainians are not second-class Russians, but a separate nation?"
Everyone wants the union to take place under their flag. No Christian would agree, for the sake of unity, to pray barefoot in the temple of Allah.
Let me compress the secret into 5 words: any YOUnion is someone's MYnion. "In theory there is no difference between practice and theory, but in practice there is," Einstein used to say. Aristotle was an uber-theorist. He was the first to write down the 3 Laws of thought.
Aristotle also claimed that the speed of the falling bodies depended on their weight, not realizing that one of his laws (i.e. the Law of non-contradiction) could be used to disprove his claim. For this, another kind of intelligence was needed, that of Galileo the Practitioner. Find 8 different primes that balance a cube. 5,7,11,13,101,103,107,109
See here what balancing means. How did you approach the problem?  I posted an incorrect solution to a problem at Tanya Khovanova's blog. Unexplainably, I am not allowed to post a new comment with the right solution, so I present it here. Like the empty set, which is a subset of every set, the empty words are part of every conversation.
Division of powers is like division by zero. It can be repeated thousandfold on paper, but is impossible to accomplish in practice.
Деленето на властите е като деленето на нула. Може да се напише хиляди пъти на хартия, но не и да се осъществи на практика. Time is not money! It is a very strange asset. You incur (and must account for) time costs:
a) once (when you buy a watch), but also b) periodically (every time you waste time looking at your watch). Knowledge is not a torch, but a flashlight. Even if you mean well, you can mislead millions by shining light in the wrong direction. Remember Aristotle, who fooled the world for two millennia with his "theory" that men have more teeth than women!
You can't have a new idea until you get rid of an old one, anthropologist Gregory Bateson used to say. Let me add this: we are lucky that often the process starts automatically, i.e. by forgetting the old idea.
What is that we are all made of and some of us don't? Matter.
The interests of the wider public are pretty narrow.
Интересите на широката публика са прекалено тесни. Whenever they tell Spiros "The Forest Ranger" he can't see the forest for the trees he replies: "Cut those trees down to the last one, you fools, and then hope to see the forest!"
Whenever they tell Georgios "The Paratrooper" he does not have a helicopter view he replies: "Helicopter view is for the losers. They are too far to see the details and too close to parachute if they have to!" All talent and effort of the alchemists, Isaac Newton including, were not enough to turn lead into gold. With minimal effort the American film academics managed to turn the gold of the Oscars into cheap metal.
Politics is worse than gambling. If you bet on a horse, you have some chance of winning. If you bet on (i.e. vote for) a politician, someone else wins. It is either your politician or a competitor of his.
Wittgenstein once said that philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Come to think of it, politics, literature and journalism are fighting for the opposite side.
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