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Encouraging Quotes
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The Light whose smile kindles the universe,
The Beauty in which all things work and move,
The Benediction which the eclipsing Curse
Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love
Which, through the web of being blindly wove
By man and beast and earth and air and sea,
Burns bright or dim as each are mirrors of
The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me,
Consuming the last clouds of cold immortality.
Shelley, Adonis
The Beauty in which all things work and move,
The Benediction which the eclipsing Curse
Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love
Which, through the web of being blindly wove
By man and beast and earth and air and sea,
Burns bright or dim as each are mirrors of
The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me,
Consuming the last clouds of cold immortality.
Shelley, Adonis
"Computer scientist Alan Kay reminds us that our perceptions are limited:
"A frog's brain is set up to recognize food as moving objects that are oblong in shape. So if we take a frog's normal food -- flies -- paralyze them with a little chloroform and put them in front of the frog, it will not notice them or try to eat them.
It will starve in front of its food! But if we throw little rectangular pieces of cardboard at the frog it will eat them until it is stuffed! The frog only sees a little of the world we see, but it still thinks it perceives the whole world.'
Now, of course, we are not like frogs! Or are we?
Source: The Center of Why? (November 11, 2004). Later in the talk, Kay says, "You can't learn to see until you realize you are blind.' "
– from a blog post by James Clear
"A frog's brain is set up to recognize food as moving objects that are oblong in shape. So if we take a frog's normal food -- flies -- paralyze them with a little chloroform and put them in front of the frog, it will not notice them or try to eat them.
It will starve in front of its food! But if we throw little rectangular pieces of cardboard at the frog it will eat them until it is stuffed! The frog only sees a little of the world we see, but it still thinks it perceives the whole world.'
Now, of course, we are not like frogs! Or are we?
Source: The Center of Why? (November 11, 2004). Later in the talk, Kay says, "You can't learn to see until you realize you are blind.' "
– from a blog post by James Clear
