Sunday, January 15, 2006
Information overload
"As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe." Denis Diderot, Encyclopedie, c. 1770.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
If you're so tough, try La Mettrie's new-year's resolution
"And you, philosophers, help me: dare to speak the truth and may childhood not be man's eternal age. Do not fear men's hatred; fear only being worthy of it." La Mettrie, Anti-Seneca, 1751
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