My life, my interests, my research
Thus man is a perpetually wanting animal. Ordinarily the satisfaction of these wants is not altogether mutually exclusive, but only tends to be. The average member of our society is most often partially satisfied and partially unsatisfied in all of his wants.
A. H. Maslow, A Theory of Human Needs, 1943
Politica e mafia sono due poteri che vivono sul controllo dello stesso territorio. O si fanno la guerra o si mettono d’accordo.
Paolo Borsellino
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
George Bernard-Shaw
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
—Arthur C. Clark
Mark Twain (1924) probably had politicians in mind when he reiterated Disraeli’s famous remark (”There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics”). Scientists, we hope, would never use data in such a selective manner to suit their own ends. But, alas, the analysis of data is often the source of some exasperation even in an academic context. On hearing comments like ‘the result of this experiment was inconclusive, so we had to use statistics’, we are frequently left wondering as to what strange tricks have been played on the data.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”
Hermann Hesse
Quiero un río de manzanas y sus orillas quiero ver a toda la población del mundo unida, reunida, en el acto mas simple de la tierra, mordiendo una manzana.
P. Neruda, 1951
It is not alway what you can take out of society that counts, but what you can put in.
Tim Berners-Lee
“La tontería es infinitamente mas interesante que la inteligencia. La tontería no tiene límites, la integencia si”
Claude Chabrol
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may be cast.
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
“When anyone says the word ‘nature’, we should ask the question, ‘Which nature?’ Naturally fertilized cabbage? Nature as it is, industrially lacerated? Country life during the 1950s (as it is represented in retrospect today, or as it was represented in days gone by to country folk, or to those who dreamed of country life)? Mountain solitude before the publication of hikers’ guides to deserted valleys? Nature as conceived by natural science? Nature without chemicals? The polished ecological models of interconnectedness? Nature as it is depicted in gardening manuals? Such nature as one years for (peace, a mountain stream, profound contemplation)? As it is praised and priced in the supermarkets of world solitude? Nature as a sight for sore eyes? The beauty of a Tuscan landscape — in other words, a highly cultivated art of nature? Or nature in the wild? The volcano before it erupts? The nature of early cultures, invested with demonic power, subjectivity and the living gods of religion? The primeval forest? Nature conceived as a zoo without cages? As it roars and rages in the cigarette advertisements of the city’s cinemas?”
–Ulrich Beck, “Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk“
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda
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