Quotation of the Day: May 2017

Thursday, May 25, 2017

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Quotation of the Day for May 25, 2017

Digital witnesses, what's the point of even sleeping?
If I can't show it, if you can't see me
What's the point of doing anything?
What's the point of even sleeping?
So I stopped sleeping, yeah I stopped sleeping

- St. Vincent, from her song Digital Witness.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
May 24, 2017

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Thursday, May 18, 2017

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"Had 3rd swim today in dulcet water. On emerging one quarter of upper stumps & appertaining Rialto fell to the sands. Makes speech and mastication night [for nigh] to impossible. But drink and silence unimpaired."

- Samuel Beckett, in a letter recounting the loss of his dentures while on vacation in Tunisia.

[http://standpointmag.co.uk/books-november-2016-david-womersley-samuel-beckett-letters]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
May 16, 2017

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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

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"He uses commas grammatically. I deploy them musically."

- Toni Morrison, writer, on her disputes over the use of commas with her editor Robert Gottlieb.

[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/books/robert-gottlieb-avid-reader-reluctant-writer.html]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
May 16, 2017

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

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"One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. What if instead of tabbing over to the web browser in search of some nugget of gossip or news, or opening up a mindless game such as Angry Birds, we could instead scratch the itch by engaging in a meaningful activity, such as learning a foreign language?

"If five million people can be convinced to log into Zynga's Facebook game Farmville each day to water a virtual garden and literally watch the grass grow on their computer screens, surely, Ed [Cooke] believes, there must be a way to co-opt those same neural circuits that reward mindless gaming to make learning more addictive and enjoyable. That's the great ambition of Memrise, and it points towards a future where we're constantly learning in tiny chunks of our downtime."

- Joshua Foer, on British memory champion Ed Cooke's online learning company, Memrise.

[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/09/learn-language-in-three-months]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
May 9, 2017

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Monday, May 1, 2017

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"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is a slavery."

- Maxim Gorky

[Happy May Day!]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
May 1, 2017

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