Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
“Hello!” He said hello and then said, “What are you up to now?” “I’m still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. “I don’t think I’d …
Quote for Today: Czeslaw Milosz
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and …
Quote for Today: Terence McKenna
Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, and …
Quote for Today: F. Sionil José
There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve …
Quote for Today: Marilyn Monroe
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my …
Quote for Today: Robert M. Pirsig
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get …
Quote for Today: Lloyd Alexander
You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? ―Lloyd Alexander, …
Quote for Today: E. L. Konigsburg
I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you …
Quote for Today: Pedro Domingos
One of the most important problems in machine learning—and life—is the exploration-exploitation dilemma. If you’ve found something that works, should you just keep doing it? Or is it better to …
Quote for Today: Ashim Shanker
It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations. So many learning environments in the …