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"Mais, enfant, pouvais-je avoir cette grandeur d’âme qui fait mépriser le mépris d’autrui ?"

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:02:49 +0100

“Mais, enfant, pouvais-je avoir cette grandeur d’âme qui fait mépriser le mépris d’autrui ?”

- Le Lys dans la vallée - Wikisource

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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:53:55 +0100

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"Because of these mirrors, the lens can’t get too close to the sensor; and the greater the..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:19:11 +0100

“Because of these mirrors, the lens can’t get too close to the sensor; and the greater the lens-to-sensor distance, the larger the lenses.”

- Death of the DSLR Camera - Gearlog

People are like the ocean: sometimes smooth and friendly, at others stormy and full of malice. The...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:45:27 +0100

People are like the ocean: sometimes smooth and friendly, at others stormy and full of malice. The important thing to remember, is that they, too, are mostly made of water.

- Albert Einstein

"Camus nos dejó una infalible regla del pulgar para identificarlas. Vargas Llosa la invoca..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:34:57 +0100

“Camus nos dejó una infalible regla del pulgar para identificarlas. Vargas Llosa la invoca explícitamente en uno de los ensayos que decuella entre los más brillantes de todos los que integran Sables y Utopías, cuando afirma que “la única moral capaz de hacer el mundo vivible es aquella que esté dispuesta a sacrificar las ideas todas las veces que ellas entren en colisión con la vida, aunque sea la de una sola persona humana, porque esta será siempre infinitamente más valiosa que las ideas, en cuyo nombre, ya lo sabemos, se pueden justificar siempre los crímenes –lo hizo el marqués de Sade, en impecables teorías– como crímenes del amor”.”

- Blog de la redacción - Detalles de la entrada: Vargas Llosa y las pinches ideas

"¡Pos ojalá mataran de una vez todas las pinches ideas y dejaran tranquilas a las personas, güey!"

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:30:06 +0100

““¡Pos ojalá mataran de una vez todas las pinches ideas y dejaran tranquilas a las personas, güey!””

- Blog de la redacción - Detalles de la entrada: Vargas Llosa y las pinches ideas

"“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:19:23 +0100

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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition”

- Graham Greene

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- Graham Greene quotes

"Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:39:09 +0100

“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. Honore de Balzac”

- Honore de Balzac Quotes

“…And when one day Rambert told him that he liked waking up at four in the morning and...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:14:00 +0100

“…And when one day Rambert told him that he liked waking up at four in the morning and thinking of his beloved Paris, the doctor guessed easily enough, basing this on his own experience, that that was his favorite time for conjuring up pictures of the woman from whom he now was parted. This was, indeed, the hour when he could feel surest she was wholly his. Till four in the morning one is seldom doing anything and at that hour, even if the night has been a night of betrayal, one is asleep. Yes, everyone sleeps at that hour, and this is reassuring, since the great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one, or, failing that, to be able to plunge the loved one, when a time of absence intervenes, into a dreamless sleep timed to last unbroken until the day they meet again.”

The Plague, Albert Camus

"Don’t look at images full size. Ken points out that the most important parts of an image are..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:58:06 +0100

“Don’t look at images full size. Ken points out that the most important parts of an image are those that can be seen when the picture is seen at thumbnail size. There are people out there who will pick at flaws they can only see in 100% crops of your photos. That’s okay, because they aren’t really worth listening to. Feel free to pass over anything that doesn’t look great when it takes up a quarter of your screen (or less).”

- How to Develop Your Photography Skills: 11 steps (with pictures) - wikiHow

"Toda letra es una herida. La proverbial comparación entre la pluma y la espada es algo más que un..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:12:05 +0100

“Toda letra es una herida. La proverbial comparación entre la pluma y la espada es algo más que un lugar común. Por ello, uno de los grandes logros de la tradición letrada fue convencernos, a través de la letra misma, de su eficacia civilizatoria, de que ella conllevaba razón, incluso justicia. Esto en realidad nunca ha sido del todo cierto, tuvimos que padecer los totalitarismos del siglo XX para descubrir, gracias a la escuela de Frankfurt, que todo documento de cultura era, también, un documento de barbarie. La escritura no sólo es violenta, además ejerce una violencia embebida de poder.”

- Blog de la redacción - La ortografía del crimen

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a..."

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:18:07 +0100

““All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.”
- Albert Camus”

- Albert Camus Quotes

"To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little..."

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:41:40 +0200

““To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…””

- The Little Prince: Chapter 21 The Little Prince and the fox

“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work...

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:12:00 +0200

“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don’t like - then cultivate it. That’s the only part of your work that’s individual and worth keeping.”

- Jean Cocteau

The Golden Ratio: A Mathematical Definition of Beauty | Suite101.com

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:01:23 +0200

The Golden Ratio: A Mathematical Definition of Beauty | Suite101.com:

"…as Ansel Adams clearly articulates in the following quote, the effect these corrections can..."

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:52:17 +0200

“…as Ansel Adams clearly articulates in the following quote, the effect these corrections can have on your image is far more grandiose. “Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.””

- Advanced Photoshop Tutorials: Burning and Dodging - photo.net

"Our present languages are not especially adapted to this sort of mechanization, it is true. It is..."

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:16:22 +0200

““Our present languages are not especially adapted to this sort of mechanization, it is true. It is strange that the inventors of universal languages have not seized upon the idea of producing one which better fitted the technique for transmitting and recording speech. Mechanization may yet force the issue, especially in the scientific field; whereupon scientific jargon would become still less intelligible to the layman.””

- Ptak Science Books: The Birth of the “Internet” at the End of WWII: Vannevar Bush & the MEMEX, July 1945

"Perhaps following the example of Metrodorus of Scepsis, vaguely described in Quintilian’s..."

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:21:25 +0200

“Perhaps following the example of Metrodorus of Scepsis, vaguely described in Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria, Giordano Bruno, a defrocked Dominican, used a variation of the art in which the trained memory was based in some fashion upon the zodiac. Apparently, his elaborate method was also based in part on the combinatoric concentric circles of Ramon Llull, in part upon schematic diagrams in keeping with medieval Ars Notoria traditions, in part upon groups of words and images associated with late antique Hermeticism,[13] and in part upon the classical architectural mnemonic. According to one influential interpretation, his memory system was intended to fill the mind of the practitioner with images representing all knowledge of the world, and was to be used, in a magical sense, as an avenue to reach the intelligible world beyond appearances, and thus enable one to powerfully influence events in the real world.[14] Such enthusiastic claims for the encyclopedic reach of the art of memory are a feature of the early Renaissance,[15] but the art also gave rise to better-known developments in logic and scientific method during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.[16]”

- Art of memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Terrible Idea Committed To Paper June 6, 2008 | Issue 44•23 SECAUCUS, NJ—Sales supervisor..."

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:06:18 +0200

“Terrible Idea Committed To Paper
June 6, 2008 | Issue 44•23
SECAUCUS, NJ—Sales supervisor Justin Henry stopped in the middle of a busy sidewalk Monday, obstructing the paths of 15 pedestrians as he frantically searched his messenger bag for a pen, all so he could immortalize a tragically asinine notion on a scrap of paper. According to witnesses, the 29-year-old repeated the pointless idea to himself over and over while looking for the writing utensil, in order to insure the conservation of his precious concept. “This is why I always carry my little notebook,” said Henry, who underlined, starred, and later e-mailed the thought to himself, apparently believing that a cognizant human being on earth might one day want to hear it. “This is good.” The moronic bullshit idea had to do with efficient management techniques in the workplace.”

- Terrible Idea Committed To Paper | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

"Being a hypothetical question about some future state of our knowledge, it has mainly been of..."

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:27:34 +0200

“Being a hypothetical question about some future state of our knowledge, it has mainly been of academic interest to philosophers. But I actually think it’s relevant to all of us because it accesses two fundamental questions about what it means to be human. First, on a practical level, is consciousness amenable to explanation? Second, on a mystical level, if consciousness can be explained, will its essence be lost?”

- Will Solving The ‘Hard Problem’ of Consciousness Unweave the Rainbow? « PsyBlog