Quote for Today: Adrienne Rich
Transcendental Etude No one ever told us we had to study our lives, make of our lives a study, as if learning natural history or music, that we should begin …
Quote for Today: Joyce Tenneson
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps …
Quote for Today: Rudy Francisco
Most of what I know I’ve learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more …
Quote for Today: Jay Woodman
You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself–well that could be because actually know deep down that we are indeed eternal. We come …
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 …
Quote for Today: Buckminster Fuller
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep …
Quote for Today: Max Ehrmann
To be without desire is to be content. But contentment is not happiness. And in contentment there is no progress. Happiness is to desire something, to work for it, and …
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: Annie Dillard
I am no scientist. I explore the neighborhood. An infant who has just learned to hold up his head has a frank and forthright way of gazing about him …
Quote for Today: S.T. Gibson
Fairy tales are more than moral lessons and time capsules for cultural commentary; they are natural law. The child raised on folklore will quickly learn the rules of crossroads …