Surfacing wisdom
The less you have, the less you waste, you have one life and one only.
Science is the art of explaining predictable noise.
Produced predictable noise is the most reliable signature (the perfect copy includes noise and defects / the imperfect copy is idealized by the model hold by the copyist, thought about FOSS illegal licensing and science in general)
The first brick of every wall starts in people mind who could instead think about the first brick of a bridge. (The first brick of every wall starts in people mind, forget it and start to think about the first brick of a bridge.)
There will always be somebody to find what you do awful and somebody else to find it genius so if you think it will help you, just do it.
Societies collapses as they dream too hard for reality to sustain their dreams. (but energy is no illusion)
Internet could provide humanity an infrastructure for introspection (as a network of human beings, probably also inspired by Behind the Mirror)
algorithms are tab completion for thoughts
You can forget everything as long as you have a sufficient understanding to recover it fast.
You think what you read. (Inspired by "You are what you eat" and reading control section of "L'Histoire du livre")
Your lifetime as an individual is not your lifetime as a society.
Un idealiste utilise comme matiere premiere des modeles realistes afin d'obtenir comme produits finis des ideaux de qualite.
L'art est un support au questionnement.
Life is an experiment
You just have to ask the right question.
(inspired by enaction)
The worst thing about winter celebrations is that we allow ourselves to be uber-pigs because during the whole year we were only "normal" consumerist pigs.
You can fight as much and as well as you want, or even better than that, you'll die anyway, it's just a question of time. (People who don't tell you so want to exploit you.)
The good think about doing bad things is that they force you to learn, quickly.
Attention is proportional to the expected impact on your survival.survival or homeostasis, your or your group survival
The vastness of your mind is not proportional to the square-feet area of your house.
Serendipity begs for the freedom to be lucky.on the way to the College de France, thinking that you had to allow yourself to have free time in order to let yourself be surprised.
I feel like a sculptor
it's as if the internet was the raw material
everytime you program in it, you modify the raw block
changing its shape according to your vision
and code is your chisel
Consumer society : free to buy, not free to think.
One can not think in a vaccuum (cf social situation but also information is physical)
Life is a continum of changing self-executing code. (see Evo-Devo)
What's the point of having your own life if you can't make your own mistakes to learn from them?
Evolving is applying the strategy with the current best energietical return on investment in order to invent and apply tomorrow's best strategy.
We have to admit imperfection before correcting it, ideals are not a solid basis to build anything upon, they are aims, not foundations.
un ideal s'effrite confronte a la realite
The human being flexible or maleable to the extrem is a curse and blessing : It is a bessing when you choose the environment to which you desire to adapt; it as curse when you let any environment shape you.
When you feel like feeling joining an activity during which somebody will command you to act freely, you might consider joining two... or none.
If quality of decision-making is recursive and repetive, one better starts improving it immediately.
If you are not using the lever, you are probably part of it.
discovering is finding and explaining regular irregularities, innovating is leveraging those disoveries
one of the common mistake is to perpetually re-insure oneself in the mistaken belief that what is too fast or too small to be perceived matters less
a son is bounded to disappoint the hope of his father because of his perception of wasted harshly accumuluted wisdom about his world, even what might be deprecated
learning = error removing stochastic process
you need to hire smarter people than you to sell to dumber people than you
Eduquer, c'est apprendre a apprendre a voir
The present is an integration of the past. (thus applicable to brain formation, EE, ...)
Practice and experiments are our only tools against what is theoretically impossible.
Having an explicit model does not imply is being more efficiant than an implicit embodied one.
Women rationality stops where chocolate starts.
The more intelligence we put in the question, the less efforts the answer shall require.
The only adversary of learning is the fear of not being able to learn.
State of the art, either you make it or it shapes you without you knowing it.
If you vote while knowing your vote will have no consequence, you are being rational and thus should not be allowed to vote.
Brushing the ego of a man is like caressing the skin of a woman, if you do it correctly you'll get whatever you want.
There is only one kind of present a parent soud never refuse his children : tools to learn and explore.
A good present is to offer what the person want but doesn't know it yet.
An affirmation is not a fact, and this is a fact.
build yourself for who you want to be, not for the opinions of others.
c'est la qualite de la barbe qui fait l'hermite
you are just one task away from rest and one product away from happiness, embrace the rat race
learn algorithm/computer science because in addition to have interfaces (tools) to most domains (from science to art) it gives you the ability to manipulate code in a recursive fashion which seems to be one of the key component of evolution.
normal is a tool of alienation used by the dominant class
being a grown up is just a sophism, a fake argument to say that you are right when you are older but can not explain why
I think you have a brain and like all of us, you are still figuring out how to use it
it's risky to be curious but maybe it's even more risky not to be.
there is a next life, just not for you
There is only one true deadline and you won't be able to experience that one twice.
it's as simple as it seems hard when you don't try
The moment I think I get it and have a kind of grip on the situation, I discover I was only seeing the edges of the bowl drifting on a much larger ocean.
wasting yourself in the endless maze of irrelevancy, you won't be the first nor the last to end up there.
If you only try what you can do, you will never learn.
if you dont learn to fail, you dont learn to learn
A woman is 19y/o even when she's not
there is no excuse to be rude whatever the degree of intellectual or social achievement = Honors and achievements are not permits for rudeness. =If you think you reached a degree of achievement that allow rudeness, you probably have to achieve a bit more.
when you think life is too precious to risk, you are too dead to worry
either you live on the bleeding edge, or you don't (live).
Having more power over others does not mean having more power over yourself.
Le voyage c'est la fuite du connu.
Decisions are overrated if you can access optimal algorithms.
One should not be afraid of death,
one should be afraid of not living.
We should always be tomorrow's barbarians.
Grades only matter when you don't know for sure
what you want to become.
Life is a funny and a serious game simultaneously
since your are the better and the bet.
The less you understand history,
the sooner you become part of it.
(Inspired by Charles de Montalembert's "Vous avez beau ne pas vous occuper de la politique, la politique s'occupe de vous tout de meme")
Lorsque philosopher devient un nom ou un qualificatif il perd tout son sens. Philosopher est un verbe d'action qui profite a celui qui l'emploi a la premiere personne du singulier comme du pluriel.
A competitive advantage is not how fast you can promise you can do something but how fast you can actually do this something.
A woman live for you to put magic in her eyes and a smile on her face.
The day you stop building castles in the sky made out of people's promises, you become very powerful
(I stopped building castles in the sky made out of people's promises.)
Il est toujours beaucoup moins fatiguant de trouver des excuses pour ne pas faire quelquechose que de trouver les moyens de le realiser.
You are fooling yourself when you think today you don't leave traces for tomorrow because you think with today's mindset and technology
If you don't cry in front of the beauty of a masterpiece, experiencing the marvels of the process that lead to it, you are very unlikely to be able to make one yourself.
Im in love with creativity and her sister curiosity
but evolution is my muse...
Entrepreneurship :
Half of what people will tell you will be totally right;
Half of what people will tell you will be totally wrong;
Including this statement.
There is an unlimited number of limited people.
You are as powerful as your models are accurate
Education is the door to wisdom,
Diploma is the door to employment,
You do not have to open both,
You can educate yourself to leave some doors closed.
La sagesse est un choix.
C'est au prix d'affronter mes peurs que s'achete ma liberte...
Branding an idea with your name does not make it yours,
using it does.
- confirmed later on by
- The ability to turn ideas into products is just as important as research, says Amar Bhidé, Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University
- La richesse consiste bien plus dans l’usage que dans la possession. Aristot
- Innovators nonetheless innovate. And they innovate because the return to them from deploying their new idea is high, even if others get the benefit of the new idea as well by Lawrence Lessing, page 71 of FutureOfIdeas
A good relationship is like a job,
you don't accept it and go along,
You build it yourself and keep on nurturing it.
If you did not find any competitor,
it does not mean you are alone,
it just means you did not search enough.
On ne dit pas non a quelque chose,
On dit oui a une meilleure alternative.
(sounds like "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" - Buckminster Fuller)
Note
Those aphorisms are little exercises aiming for synthesis of ideas using beauty as a vector. The content should be fundamental and conveyed pleasantly.
See also
Better presentation
- textflows interactive view
- making a booklet (potentially with Lulu with their Mini books and eBooks) with a growing fabia seed as a movie on turning pages ending up blossoming, as suggested by Paola
- unique illustration like the frases ilustradas blog
- opening quote "Le bon ouvrier a toujours le bon outil." by Gilbert Benetou followed by a short explanation on each aphorism being little cognitive tool itself
- "Quand on demande a Michel Foucault ce qu'un livre est pour lui, il repond: c'est une boite a touils. Proust.... disait que son livre etait comme des lunettes: voyez si elles vous conviennent, si vous percevez grace a elles ce que vous n'auriez pas pu saisir autrement; sinon laissez mon livre" page 73 of Mille Plateaux also published in La Guerre des Idees and Literary philosophers
- booktwo.org : Literature + Technology report, catalogue, investigate, stimulate and debate the future of literature.
To do
- for French aphorisms, provide an alternative English translation
- use the metaphor of
- essencial oil extraction (using the faba bean)
- aphorisms from experience
- tweet aphorisms
- with an appropriate tag and a link to the book page
- alternative ways to present them
