Sunday, October 18, 2009
“… in an information rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
Herbert Simon - 1971
Simon’s a pretty smart guy: Turing Award winner; Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics; and National Medal of Science winner. We probably ought to pay attention.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
To Err is human, to Arrrr is Pirate.
Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
“Destiny is not a matter of chance - it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for - it is a thing to be achieved.”
- William Jennings Bryan
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Friday, July 10, 2009
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
When a conjecture inspires new hopes or creates new fears, action is indicated. There is an important asymmetry between hope, which leads to actions which will test its basis, and fear, which leads to restriction of options frequently preventing any attempt at testing. As we know only too well, many of our hopes do not survive their tests. However, fears accumulate untested. Our inventory of untested fears has always made humanity disastrously vulnerable to thought control. Independent science’s greatest triumph [has been] the reduction of that vulnerability.
Arthur Kantrowitz
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