July 2011
1 post
Even today, despite the Eichler’s example, […] architects design...
– Eichler. Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream
June 2011
3 posts
The greatest businesspeople I’ve met are determined to get it right no...
– The E-Myth Revisited
People who are exceptionally good in business are so because of their insatiable...
– The E-Myth Revisited
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior...
– Tales of Power
Another common trap that many marketers fall into is focusing too much on trying...
– Delivering Happiness, by Toni Hsieh
I walked away from that experience with the lesson that sometimes the truth...
– Delivering Happiness, by Toni Hsieh
October 2009
2 posts
The people who are crazy enought to think they can change the world are the ones...
– Inside Steve’s Brain
Edward Tufte is the author and publisher of an influential series of books about...
– Indie Publishing. How to Design and Produce Your Own Book. Edited by Ellen Lupton.
It’s ok to be different, to embrace what makes you special, and to be...
– It’s not easy being green, by Jim Henson
August 2008
1 post
The way not to have to raise money is not to spend money. Do everything as...
– Paul Graham, Founders at Work
March 2008
24 posts
As we start giving the objects around us more initiative, more intelligence, and...
– The Design of Future Things, Donald Norman
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When I was 14, I volunteered at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, and,...
– An Eames Primer, Eames Demetrios,
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Swiss are the only nation to make the German appear inefficient, the French...
– Xenophobe’s guide to the Swiss, Paul Bilton
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No eres una mala persona. Eres mi persona favorita. Sin embargo, de vez en...
– Kill Bill 2
2 tags
[…] Erastosthenes of Alexandria, whose nickname was “Beta”...
– The man who loved only numbers, Paul Hoffman
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317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our mind are shaped in one...
– The man who loved only numbers, Paul Hoffman
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But the same primes, with all the same properties, exist in any number system.
– The man who loved only numbers, Paul Hoffman
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The game of life,” Erdós often said, “is to keep the SF ‘s...
– The man who loved only numbers, Paul Hoffman
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“I’m not qualified to say wheather or not God exists”, Erdós...
– The man who loved only numbers, Paul Hoffman
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In the late 1980s Erdós heard of a promising high school student named Glen...
– The man who loved only numbers, Paul Hoffman
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His arm was flapping wildly now, and he was coughing. “I don´t understand...
– The man who loved only numbers, Paul Hoffman
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Contrata siempre a personas mejores que tú
– Cómo ser diseñador gráfico sin perder el alma, Adrian Shaughnessy
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Los matemáticos se juntan normalmente a la hora del café; Erdős decía que un...
– Cartas a una joven matemática. Ian Stewart
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Una deducción es tan fuerte como su eslabón más débil.
– Cartas a una joven matemática. Ian Stewart
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Creo que las matemáticas humanas están mucho más ligadas de lo que imaginamos a...
– Cartas a una joven matemática. Ian Stewart
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A lo que ningún mapa actual aspira sin duda es a lo que pretendieron aquellos...
– La vida eterna, Fernando Savater
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Los más de los suicidas son homicidas frustrados; se matan a sí mismos por falta...
– Niebla, Miguel de Unamuno
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A la gente le gusta la conversación por la conversación misma, aunque no diga...
– Niebla, Miguel de Unamuno
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¿Qué es el mundo real sino el sueño que soñamos todos, el sueño común?
– Niebla, de Miguel de Unamuno
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Se lo preguntaron a Bertrand Russell: ¿y si, después de morir, despertase ante...
– La vida eterna, Fernando Savater
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Siempre habrá entre nosotros cortadores de leña y sacadores de agua. Nuestra...
– Vida de Oscar Wilde . Alberto N. Delmar
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El deber de cada padre es escribir cuentos de hadas para sus hijos
– Vida de Oscar Wilde . Alberto N. Delmar
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Cuando la luz rebota dentro de una gota de agua, la forma esférica de la gota...
– Cartas a una joven matemática. Ian Stewart
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Un círculo matemático es algo más que una ficción compartida. Es un concepto...
– Cartas a una joven matemática. Ian Stewart