对于这种现象,我曾经的导师Ms. Tham也暗示过。‘演绎音乐的过程是艰苦的,你们必须集中精神,在气的运吐、音的高低、甚至表情的配合上做到尽善尽美。观众以为我们在享受音乐,其实我们是在享受苦难。’
‘If Yahoo is a hobby turned into a business, Google is an intellectual obsession turned into a quest’. 希望两个来自斯坦福的天才能够实现他们的梦想,用algorithm改造世界。
point where my personal and intellectual lives met? (does that imply that my personal life is totally brainless?)
对于这种现象,我曾经的导师Ms. Tham也暗示过。‘演绎音乐的过程是艰苦的,你们必须集中精神,在气的运吐、音的高低、甚至表情的配合上做到尽善尽美。观众以为我们在享受音乐,其实我们是在享受苦难。’
‘If Yahoo is a hobby turned into a business, Google is an intellectual obsession turned into a quest’. 希望两个来自斯坦福的天才能够实现他们的梦想,用algorithm改造世界。
‘当我们对某一事件大发议论的时候,我们仅仅是在把脑中根深蒂固的偏见重新排列。’
‘Sometimes we thought we are expressing opinions, when in fact we are merely rearranging prejudices.’
批判是无法揭开事物本质的;相反,它所反映的往往是是批判者自身。
‘A critique reveals more often the critic than the object of his criticism.’
最后还是被文字游戏迷惑了。
‘黎明前永远是最黑暗的’
‘Debate precedes enlightenment’.
在期中论文上写上这句话的人,一直被我奉若神明。表面上看,怀疑主义者自己吞下了苦果;擅用‘常识’这一逻辑的他们,在同样无法辩驳所谓‘理论’面前无话可说。
可是这样的辩论在佩恩看来,只能是无谓的形式主义。毕竟只要辩论没有结果,怀疑主义者
就可以继续宣扬他们的教条。
卡尔-达尔豪斯(Carl Dahlhaus), 二十世纪末最有影响的音乐学者。犀利的分析力和判断力令人叹服。
‘批评家之间的对话,其实根本没有发生过。内心雪亮的读者会发掘批判背后的前提条件,而这些前提条件往往不是相互补充,就是殊途同归。’
杜鲁门想找的一只手的经济学家,看来是永远不会出现了。
In The Carrick" and in "The Metamorphosis" there is a central figure endowed with a certain amount of human pathos among grotesque, heartless characters, figures of fun or figures of horror, asses parading as zebras, or hybrids between rabbits and rats.
- from Vladimir Nabokov's Lecture on "The Metamorphosis"
我觉得小熊和此君是英雄所见略同
BBC的连续剧Hustle, 讲的是一个和旅团类似的盗贼团体。
诈骗的第一条原则,就是你骗不了一个诚实的人。
Con Artists屡屡得手,可是却骗不了完美主义者的印度大叔。
他说,只有真正的完美主义者才知道,完美并不存在于这个世界。当他看到完美的计划被完美实施的时候,也看到了完美背后的金钱陷阱。
完美主义者对瑕疵的不容忍,本身就是瑕疵。这也似乎暗示着,完美非人力所能及。反躬自问,若是学古人非礼勿听,非礼勿视,不饮盗泉,为了追求完美畏首畏尾,似与闭关自守无异!
A Prayer for Owen Meany is now officially on my booklist!^___^"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." "The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air." I stole these from a sweet girl's site~ I couldn't help it. Nothing but simplicity and pure beauty. I wish I could say the same to India. Had the rivers been cleaner, and the children less hunger-striken! |