Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
Interpretation
Da Vinci expressed his lifelong ambition to create a flying machine, highlighting human innovation and dreams.
This quote by Leonardo Da Vinci reflects his profound vision and aspiration for human advancement through technology. It emphasizes the innate desire to push the boundaries of possibility and invent machines that fulfill the human imagination. Da Vinci believed that through creativity and perseverance, mankind could achieve extraordinary feats, such as flight, which symbolizes freedom and exploration.
In practice
During a technology conference where we discuss the future of aviation.
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.
What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.
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