[quotation]Self-Reliance

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these. Not possibly will the soul all rich, all eloquent, with thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature. Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again.

-- Self-Reliance, from Essays: First Series (1841), Ralph Waldo Emerson, http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm
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元旦就不写总结了。年三十写吧。

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不停读书

中午十五分钟的时间又泛读了一本《自私的基因》的几个章节。其中主要就是讲到自私和利他的关系。生物学家从基因的角度能够分析出自私和利他的原因。

经济学：曼昆的书中，经济学十大原理中一个，就是人和人之间的合作可以使双方都更受益。

科学研究的一个重要方面就是发现事物之间的联系。

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[学习]体系结构复习

如何设计
"One of the things I remember Dave Patterson saying many years ago is that for each new project you only get so many 'cleverness beans.' That is, you can be very clever in a few areas of your design, but if you try to be clever in all of them, the design will probably fail to achieve its goals -- or even fail to work or to be finished at all. The overriding lesson that I have learned in 20 plus years of working on these kinds of designs is that you must choose what is important and focus on that; true wisdom is to know what to leave out. A deep knowledge of what has gone before is key to this abllity."
-- by Bill Joy, Chief Scientist and Corporate Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Foreword of the book Computer Architecture: Aquantitative Approach
"书上看的东西和自己折腾得到的东西是很不一样的。确定系统结构是一个反复循环迭代的过程：在计算机系统的所有级别搜寻可能存在的设计空间。……设计空间的收敛，是一个很漫长、很痛苦的过程。(不是没有选择，是选择太多。)"

ISA设计
早期的ISA设计受到工艺的限制，设计目标主要是需要简化硬件。
(Brainstorming)很幸运自己处在这么一个时期，以前几个房间的晶体管做的事情可以用一个小小的几百块钱的芯片完成！太了不起了，短短几十年，发展成这样！用你最大胆的想象去想象未来，那就是未来的样子！

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昨天的演出

昨天演出太high了，回来以后都不知道怎么写。只记了两首歌名。倒是今天才有些清醒过来。
昨天最high的是，文艺部只让我们演两首（晚会时间很长，所以每个节目都必须缩时间），我们硬是返了一场，演了三首。排在我们后面的节目都快哭了。这种事情，反正以前我是没有干过。

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[quotation] The Prophet

The sea that calls all things unto her calls me, and I must embark.
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...alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.
Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.
-- Gibran Kahlil, The Prophet

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《yellow》
《dreams》

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[quotation] Excellence

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.
--Aristotl

"杰出是一种习惯。"原来原话是亚里士多德。了不起。

excellence = 要求高一点 + 坚持

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研代会

研代会文艺部。
去做做试试看。

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quotation

"我肯定说不出我们为什么成功。说的出为什么成功的人往往是做不出来的，做出来的人往往说不出他为什么成功的。"
--马云

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An ordinary day

1.并行处理的共享存储。据说全世界也就那么几个人搞得比较懂（那几个人先去了XXX，搞出CC-NUMA，又去了IBM，又去了……然后一圈下来，这些公司都搞出来了。）但是胡老师讲得特别清楚。这不是每个人都能听懂的嘛～！？

2.今天龙芯万亿次高性能计算机通过国家鉴定。我是到了下课才从同学这里知道。

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打算申请研代会

去争取，你就能得到。
……最好的办法就是立刻去做。
多付出一点精神能够增加你的个人进取心，因为只有这样，才能使你变得主动，而不是等待事情自行发展，所以，这更能使你加快成功的步伐。
Give your best anyway.

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读愤青

好久没上傻逼老愤青的牛博网了。今天是看到订阅的博客里面有链到牛博的，所以又重新去牛博逛。发现牛博里面真是很多好文啊。（难怪牛博cn被封掉，只能上牛博com了。）下面摘录几篇牛博的博文和博客。

"他们去浙江参加会议，也会想办法取道北京来看我。"
旅行的意义（一）
http://www.bullogger.com/blogs/grandma/archives/104666.aspx

"我有一个梦想，就是要开展性教育"
佞一篇专南：尴尬的性启蒙
http://www.bullogger.com/blogs/grandma/archives/49041.aspx

情书--drunkpiano's blog
http://www.bullogger.com/blogs/drunkpiano/

还有留给老罗的留言：
老罗，我求求你了。你别再毒害中国这些半大不大，思想不成熟的孩子们了。你是很愤青，很有你自己的一套。但是你每天在这写啊写的，管个P用啊！只能让社会 更乱，大家活的更累，你没给别人带来任何有益的作用。我老公快被你迷死了，光看你的网站能生活吗？能当饭吃？求你了，消失吧。
http://www.luoyonghao.net/blogs/luoyonghao/archives/118202.aspx

前段时间我把这个老愤青的rss从google reader中删掉了，原因就是因为他太愤青了（我那段时间自己本身已经很愤青了，所以不能再添更多的愤青的情绪）。今天看来又得把他添上，听听愤青们的声音，有助于不满足于现状；同时保持不愤青的心态，积极地去行动。

愤青无用和愤青有用。在行动面前，言语总是苍白的，所以才会愤青无用；但是所有的行动又是来自思想，认识问题是解决问题的第一步，所以才又愤青有用。至于到底是有用还是无用，如何用，那就在于读文章的人。在傻瓜面前，所有人都是傻瓜。为什么愤青的文章会被封，不是愤青们的文章写得质量太低，而是读愤青的人的水平大多还是低的，所以愤青们的文章造成的影响不是他们原先想象的那样。正方和反方，谁有理？都有理。怎么来解决？可能只有渐变。愤青指出的问题逐渐被解决，逐渐愤青没有可以愤的题材了，逐渐读者的水平提高了，逐渐……让我们等着看吧。

愤青的文章要读，读的时候要保持不愤青的心态，最后落实的是积极的行动。――这是我读愤青的总结。
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[推荐阅读]转自ieemdai.spaces.live.com

历史是重复的
"What the Wise Man Does at the Beginning, Fools Do in the End"
CCTV: "在中石油的减持问题上，巴菲特显然犯了错误"
感慨一下
Quotes from Warren Buffett(沃�・巴菲特)

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[quotation] fool and wise

"What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning."
[--Spanish Proverb--]

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Merry Grav-mass!

哈哈。stallman。别人在庆祝圣诞节，他在庆祝牛顿生日。而且还有一首carol:We Three Laws.

Merry Grav-mass!

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利用闲散的时间

一般来说，超过45分钟就算是比较可观的时间了。少于45分钟呢？可以干点什么？
如果有40分钟，可以做什么？可以泛读完一章，或者精读完一节
如果有20分钟，怎么用？可以泛读一到两小节
如果有10分钟，做什么合适？可以泛读完一小节
如果有5分钟，能做什么？可以泛读一篇简单文章。精读一个概念。

找点有意思的读(for fun)。找点有难度的读(for no other than its difficulty)。

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读论文是一件很有意思的事情，当然，前提是读写的好的论文。就像听歌一样，要听唱歌唱得好的人唱的歌。很有意思。很多东西是相通的。

相通的东西：
思路要清晰。表达要准确。

对于鼓、guitar：
思路就相当于整首乐曲的曲式、乐段。
表达就相当于每一个动机、乐句。要准确就是说要做到完美。

对于ppt、论文、写作：
思路：文章的大纲、主线、中心思想、逻辑。
表达：词汇。要准确就是说要做到达意。

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A glimps in the graduate student time

我刚跑完步回来。下午去练习了一下29号要演出的曲目《Dreams》中的架子鼓。打开电脑看David Patterson's ppt: Future of Computer Architecture。后天考算法，前天把算法复习完了。星期四要交《论语》的论文，写了1000字，打算再写2000字，利用零散时间写。

室友下午看完《综艺大哥大》，晚上在看柯南的电影版。复习了一会明天要考的自动机。现在在玩《空之轨迹》。

我是不是要告诉他：是时候做一些严肃的工作了！好比听音乐，是时候听一些严肃音乐了，而不是流行歌曲、通俗歌曲、娱乐歌曲。再继续听流行歌曲，你的水平也就停留在这点上了。
通过什么方式告诉他？
我应该再读读《第8个习惯》，看看什么可行措施来help others to find their voice。
不过我已经在这么做。我保持我每天的好习惯，对室友来说，就是一个积极的促进作用。经常打扫屋子，就是保持一个整洁的环境。意见和建议只是一种口头上的方法，要去影响他人，最有力的还是你的行动。

临时想到的这些。继续看ppt了。

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[Reading]《演算之美》讲座ppt 之 Capabilities and limitations of a digital computer

Capabilities and limitations of a digital computer

1936 (10 years before the invention of digital computers), Alonzo Church and Alan Turing studied the question : What is an "instruction obeying" machine capable of doing?
这是最本质的东西。


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[Reading]《演算之美》讲座ppt 之 引子

今天看刘炯朗教授的ppt――《演算之美》（遗憾没去听讲座），开篇以《洛神赋》中的一段描写作为引子。太美了。
"翩若惊鸿，婉若游龙。荣曜秋菊，华茂春松。仿佛兮若轻云之蔽月，飘飘兮若流风之回雪。"

刘炯朗教授平日做研究必然也是一种轻松愉快的心态吧。前些日子读到钱学森先生的新闻，讲到艺术的重要性。周海宏教授的音乐讲座，讲到理性能力和感性能力都需要发展的重要性。都是在强调艺术。感性能力，真的很重要。Steven Covey的《The 8th Habit》里面讲到的spiritual intelligence, emotional intelligence以及SQ,EQ的重要性。都在说明着这么一件事情，我用孔子的话来概括：知之者，不如好之者，好之者，不如乐之者。

结合上面这些阅读以及自己的切身感受，我得到的结论是：一种轻松的专注的心态来自于感性，而不是来自理性。理性可以说服自己去做一件事情，但是真正要以一种热忱、一种passion、一种轻松愉快、一种专注的、忘我的心态去做一件事情，这种能力（是应该用"能力"这个词语）来自于感性。

周老师说他在一次坐飞机的时候听在二战刚刚结束后德国指挥家指挥的贝多芬《命运》的版本，泪流满面，体验到了那种强烈的共鸣，那个时候，他完全已经不顾周围的人误解他为什么这么伤心。


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继续使用google doc

我在减少使用MS Word，因为Google Doc可以做所有我需要的事情，而且Keep Simple。

而且Google Doc可以导出到下列格式：
pdf,OpenDocument,rtf,html,doc

测试校内rss

测试rss。发在space，看校内的rss能不能导入。

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测试rss。发在space，看校内的rss能不能导入。

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Digest: Love Your Work or Don’t Work at All

Why is it that so many people are willing to tolerate work they don't enjoy for the sake of a paycheck? I think it's because most of them simply don't know what it's really like to be in love with their work. Their fear is greater than their power, so they never make the leap into the unknown to find out what it's like to work from love instead of for money.

-- Love Your Work or Don't Work at All ,from Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blogby Steve Pavlina

This would be an excellent annotation of the poem "My Wage" by Jessie B. Rittenhouse:

        I bargained with Life for a penny,
        And Life would pay no more,
        However I begged at evening
        When I counted my scanty store;

        For Life is a just employer,
        He gives you what you ask,
        But once you have set the wages,
        Why, you must bear the task.

        I worked for a menial's hire,
        Only to learn, dismayed,
        That any wage I had asked of Life,
        Life would have paid.

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精确

精确很重要。要多精确？不能出错。根据Murphy's Law：所有可能出错的情况，最终都会出错。

高斯对于数学的要求："少些，但要成熟。""不留下进一步要做的事情。""极度严格的要求"

如果没有做到perfect，最终肯定会出错。用文学的话来讲，"期待是常常落空的，它一般是最确切的一面。"

Computer.Organization.and.Design这本书讲得很生动很有说服力。在第三章Fallacies and Pitfalls里面举了Intel的一个例子，大致是关于浮点除法的精确度的，因为一个主观的guess，导致最后几亿的损失。

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note: sometimes read fast, sometimes slow

sometimes read fast to grasp the whole
sometimes read slow to digg into the details

learn the whole by learning the details
learn details without lost the whole

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quotation: Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature

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Quotations: Youth

Youth

by Samuel Ullman

 

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

青春

文/塞��・厄�曼

 

青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。

一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。

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Quotes from Warren Buffett(沃倫·巴菲特)

 

 

Sent to you by lvhuiwei via Google Reader:

 

 

Quotes from Warren Buffett(沃倫·巴菲特)

via Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind on 12/15/07

Source: WikiQuote

Habit

• "You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out."
• "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

Price Conscious

• "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
• "For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up. "
• "Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well."

Circle of Competency

• "There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do."
  

Intelligent Decision Making

• "The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable." - Financial Review, 1985
• "I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful."- lecturing to a group of students at Columbia U. He was 21 years old.
• "We're more comfortable in that kind of business. It means we miss a lot of very big winners. But we wouldn't know how to pick them out anyway. It also means we have very few big losers - and that's quite helpful over time. We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff." - 1999 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
• "The most common cause of low prices is pessimism-some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an (pessimistic) environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer." - 1990 Chairman's Letter to Shareholders
• "Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing." - BusinessWeek Interview June 25 1999
• "Time is the enemy of the poor business and the friend of the great business. If you have a business that's earning 20%-25% on equity, time is your friend. But time is your enemy if your money is in a low return business."- 1998 Berkshire Annual Meeting
• "Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?"- 1987 Chairman's Letter to Shareholders

Inactivity as Intelligent

• "We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely." - 1998 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
• "I call investing the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate, the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! and nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity lost. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it."

On Diversification

• "Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing."

On Margin of Safety

• "You leave yourself an enormous margin of safety. You build a bridge that 30,000-pound trucks can go across and then you drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. That is the way I like to go across bridges." - Financial World, June 13, 1984.

Efficient Market Hypothesis

• "I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were always efficient."

General Rules

• "Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."
• "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
• "You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right—and that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else."
• "Our favourite holding period is forever." Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, 1988
• "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact."
• "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."
• "If you don't know jewellery, know the jeweller."
• "If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes."
• "There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."
• "One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over... your problem won't improve with age."
• "A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought."
• "If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."
• "The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect... You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd."
• "The future is never clear, and you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long-term values."
• "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
• "Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked."
• When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: "we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year."
• "I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that. "I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because..." If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money."
• "You ought to be able to explain why you're taking the job you're taking, why you're making the investment you're making, or whatever it may be. And if it can't stand applying pencil to paper, you'd better think it through some more. And if you can't write an intelligent answer to those questions, don't do it."
• "I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want."
• "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

Views of Government and Wall Street

• "Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
• "The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient."
• "Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: `How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?' The answer: `Four, because calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg'."

Walking Away

• "I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital." - in a letter to his partners in the stock market frenzy of 1969.
• "I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero."

Bridge

• "I wouldn't mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge."

 

 

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re凯恺: "seriously, what the hell is the pic followed to every single article?!"

:) seriously, it is a gnu. you can find more information about it by visiting www.gnu.org or just search it.

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Quotation - Mother Teresa: "Do It Anyway"

1. The version found written on the wall in Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta:

              People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway.

            If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway.

            If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.  Succeed anyway.

            If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway.

            What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.  Create anyway.

            If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.

            The good you do today, will often be forgotten.  Do good anyway.

         Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.  Give your best anyway.

         In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway.

-this version is credited to Mother Teresa

2. The Original Version:

The Paradoxical Commandments

by Dr. Kent M. Keith

   1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
      Love them anyway.
   2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
      Do good anyway.
   3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
      Succeed anyway.
   4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
      Do good anyway.
   5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
      Be honest and frank anyway.
   6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
      Think big anyway.
   7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
      Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
   8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
      Build anyway.
   9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
      Help people anyway.
  10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
      Give the world the best you have anyway.

© 1968, 2001 Kent M. Keith

"The Paradoxical Commandments" were written by Kent M. Keith in 1968 as part of a booklet for student leaders.

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这不是你和他人之间的关系。这是你和真理之间的关系。

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首先，在做某件事之前，不要假定某件事是难的还是容易的；其次，在做某件事之时，不要去断定这件事是难的还是容易的。感性的主观的判断，并不有助于你理性的推理和对真相的认识。世界上没有所谓难的复杂的事情，只有蒙昧无知怯懦懒惰的主观臆断。

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看色戒

汤唯太漂亮了。

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strength

1、转移猜测很重要，必须要做。转移指令具有规律，是可以猜测的。
2、不但是必须打败的，而且是能够打败的。当着天空中出现乌云的时候，我们就指出：这不过是暂时的现象，黑暗即将过去，曙光即在前头。

必须要做，而且是能够做的。

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[vision]google doc

一段时间没用google doc，这几天回去看了一下！做的太好了。一个感觉就是Word在5年内会被取代(<50%)。Windows在8年内会被linux取代(<50%)。

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[编程教训]一定要初始化变量

忙了一天半，就是因为一个数组被使用的时候没有初始化。
而后面的操作是基于这个数组成员的值是什么。
在VC下面，数组的值被默认初始化为0或者false，而在linux环境下，不是的，有可能是任何值。

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本来睡得挺好。尝试"How to Become an Early Riser"里面的方法，结果白天补了两觉，现在睡不着。

结论：
0、原文是有道理的，值得尝试。昨天和今天的尝试有一些好的效果，也有一些坏的效果，需要继承好的，改掉坏的。
1、白天是不能补觉滴～记住。这样到晚上就想到睡了。再试试。
2、在多出来的时间里不要干那些消闲的事情。你可以安排时间去娱乐，但是不要消闲。而且这些多出来的时间是自己这么辛苦不睡觉换来的，竟然拿去消闲！再次强调：要有目的性，拿你一天的时间干吗。
3、一次改太多就会出现这种结果。量变的规律自己给忘掉了。每次作出适度的改变，最后就能改成。想想小平同志怎么说的，摸着石头过河。自己原先的习惯不能一下子全都扔掉，这是行不通的。最后肯定是原先的习惯和这个新的尝试结合，得到新的第三种方式。
4、要适合自己。

结论的小结：
要扬弃，要discipline，要industry，要摸石头过河，要适合自己，要比原先进步。

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回想这几天的学习。
想起方教授讲音乐时候的一句话来：（听serious music的时候，专家和你一样不懂）专家和你的区别就是，专家不懂他还继续听（到听懂为止），而你选择不继续听。
我现在是半懂。

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1.最近为什么烦心？

  seriously,没有。吃饱睡好。

2.你是怎么看待大学里的爱情的? 

  seriously,没什么看法。每个人都有自己的生活。

3.最后悔的事情?

  seriously,没有。事情总在变。

4.哪段时光做的什么事情让你至今印象深刻，记忆犹新？

  幼儿园：轻松的两年

  小学：轻松的六年

  初中：轻松的三年

  高中：轻松的三年

  大学：落榜调剂后轻松的四年

  考研：没考上以后轻松的两年

  现在：考上后轻松的半年

5.最不想失去的人？

  seriously,一个都不能少。

6.什么样的人是你最珍惜的人？

  1.说真话的人；2 .善良的人；

7.目前最想得到什么?

  现在有的这些。  

8.你希望你另一半的性格是什么样子D……？

  seriouly,就是她原来那样就行。

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[opencourseware]the world is open

thanks to the internet and the generous universities, the knowledge age is open to everyone.
check them out!
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
http://open.yale.edu/courses/
http://ocw.usu.edu/
http://ocw.tufts.edu/
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.htm

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sow a thought

http://www.cas.cn/html/Dir/2007/12/12/15/43/47.htm
http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/200712/1210_17_327006.shtml

前几天才去听了音乐讲座，教授说钱学森老先生的音乐修养很高，今天就看到钱老先生的新闻了，96岁，真是了不起。
"处理好科学和艺术的关系，就能够创新，中国人就一定能赛过外国人"


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[recommended reading]:How to Become an Early Riser

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-early-riser/
摘要：go to bed when  sleepy (and only when sleepy) and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time
补充：每天要锻炼。身体要强壮。

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exciting news!

暴雪总裁：未来将在中国架设战网服务器
暴雪将在中国推出《星际争霸2》和战网服务器(Battle.net)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/internet/2007-12/14/content_7248090.htm

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读书笔记：思维导图

当你每次产生一个想法时，带有这个思想的神经通道中的生化/电磁阻力就会减少。这就像在丛林之中清出一条小路来一样。第一次得费一点劲，因为你必须清除掉一路段杂草缠藤。第二次就容易多了，因为第一次走过这里时已经做了很多清障工作。你从这里经过的次数越多，存在的阻力就越小，直到重复很多次以后，这条小路变得又宽又平，基本没有什么或者只有很少的东西要清除了。大脑里面的情形差不多：你重复思想模式或者图谱的次数越多，对它们造成的阻力就越小。因此，重复本身就增大了自我重复的可能性 ，这一点至关重要。换句话说，"心理现象"发生的次数越多，它再次发生的可能性就越大。
Every time you have a thought, the biochemical/electromagnetic resistance along the pathway carrying that thought is reduced. It is like trying to clear a path through a forest. The first time is a struggle because you have to fight your way through the undrgrowth. The second time you travel that way will be easier because of the clearing you did on your first journey. The more times you travel that path, the less resistance there will be, until, after many repetitions, you have a wide, smooth track which requires little or no clearing. Asimilar function occurs in your brain: the more you repeat patterns or maps of thought, the less resistance there is to them. Therefore, and of greater significance, repetition in itself increases the probability of repetition. In other words, the more times a 'mental event' happens, the more likely it is to happen again.
-- 思维导图 / The Mind Map Book, Tony Buzan


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美联社2007年度最佳图片
http://news.ifeng.com/photo/other/200712/1211_1399_328391.shtml
美国《时代》周刊评出2007年十大科学发现
http://news.ifeng.com/photo/other/200712/1212_1399_329217.shtml
OpenSPARC T2 Released
http://www.opensparc.net/
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007
http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/07words.htm

w00t

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今天小组交流会。两个ppt，第二个ppt已经可以听懂了。哈哈，i'm catching up.

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哈哈，windows下的工作基本做完了。又可以回到Linux下玩了。
敲着命令行，有一种free的感觉！happy

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re

time for some serious music
time for some serious work
time for some serious coding
time for some serious thinking

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听pop
想起昨天音乐讲座《走进音乐的世界》
"现在的流行歌曲，歌词写的是悲伤，旋律却是快而高的，哪里有什么悲伤。"
"人的感性认识能力慢慢提高……你们的年龄，是时间听一些严肃音乐了。"
"我不知道用一个什么词来描述'严肃'音乐，从英文的serious翻过来，但又没有一个好的词。其实，严肃这个词很狭隘，不够表达'严肃'音乐本来的意思。"

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don't settle! don't settle! don't settle!

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感性能力

简单的东西容易腻。复杂的东西受众少。

上课。

图书馆。从教室到图书馆其实只要10分钟。

编程。

讲座。逃了编译课去听了场音乐讲座。简单记下：联觉、情绪的艺术。复杂的东西受众少。要听合适的音乐。可持续的，为了明天，每天忍受着努力一点。

读书。摘录两段如下：
There, I've said it. Organisation, structure, discipline and habit � these often seen as threats to
creativity. Not to mention corporate-sounding phrases such as 'time management' or 'workflow'.
We like to think of creativity as a space for untrammelled imagination, free from all constraints. Yet
while freedom, rule-breaking and inspiration are undoubtedly essential to the creative process, the
popular image of creativity overlooks another aspect: examine the life of any great artist and you
will find evidence of hard work, discipline and a hard-won knowledge of the rules and conventions
of their medium.
-- Time management for creative people

Most people equate discipline with an absence of freedom. "Shoulds kill spontaneity." "There's no freedom in 'have to'." " I want to do what I want to do. That's freedom, not duty."
In fact, the opposite is true. Only the disciplined are truly free. The undisciplined are slaves to mood, appetites and passions.
-- The 8th Habit

花了一个小时把google reader整理了一下。没想到订阅到rss已经这么多了。

hang around

maybe i should write my blog like this:
" Housing collapsed. The dollar sank. Oil rose. The Dow fluctuated. Britney imploded. At least there was the iPhone and a Police reunion tour" -- Most Important of 2007

a good piece of news

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 晖林,我的兄弟.每次当我作完自己的音乐第一时间听到的肯定是他.为什么?因为客观.虽然并不同行,但是其真诚,不虚伪.试想.作为好友的你如何拒绝对方期盼的夸奖,他就能拒绝.我再其面前已然颓了.看了听了吧.这就是好朋友的概念.问题延伸到他的第一部处女做-"传冰".当时的音乐部分是我和龙宽完成.我感觉自己快被这个疯子逼疯了.真想和他码X翻车.但是结局还是美好的.何谓朋友?说真话者为!!!音乐的道路坎坷,2个字--继续!!!

 

 

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dairy

better than yesterday
coding till night

quotation

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday.
-- Eric Hoffer

gmail short cut is so cool!

move around like wind

mindmap dairy

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today

same as yesterday

每天进步一点――Industry

幸福地coding了一天，最后在睡觉前把能找到的所有bug改掉。

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. --Benjamin Franklin

Coding from sunrise to sunset, how time flys!
What a nice day!

[Software]The Open Source Softwares I am using

Go OpenSource!

You can find them using google:
Graphviz,Cygwin,Gvim,Emacs,GSView,Freemind,Gimp,Filezilla,Firefox,eMule,Launchy,StarDict... and, much more to explore!

[Software]shocked by Graphviz

a great shock of what a software can do!
so cool!
http://www.graphviz.org/

[编程教训]彻底搞清楚了原理，读懂了算法，读懂了源代码的文档，读懂了源代码的注释，再coding

彻底搞清楚了原理，读懂了算法，读懂了源代码的文档，读懂了源代码的注释，再coding

Read Everything, Cover to Cover
It's very common for people to try to debug something without thoroughly reading the manual for the system they're using. They've skimmed it, looking at the sections they thought were important, but the section they didn't read held the clue to what was wrong. Heck, that's how I ended up struggling with the ... at one o'clock in the morning.
-- David J. Agans, Chap 3, p12, Debugging: The 9 indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems

每天进步一点――专注

Focus
今天读了王毅的blog，同受教育。"既然要做就要尽全力做到最好，要么就不要做好了！"

昨天刚说自己最近学很多新东西，但是这必须是做好最主要的事情――学习的基础上的。要有一个主次，一个平衡。也就是说，在抓住主要同时，open mind。宁可少做几件事，把做的几件事做好。

每天进步一点――日新，日日新

太极拳课结课了。二十四式太极拳偷学到手。很有趣的过程。
想想自己最近好像学了不少新的东西。首先是夏天的时候学会了游泳，然后现在又学会了太极。还有前天学会的新的鼓的节奏型。
Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
--William James
There are so many gifts
Still unopened from your birthday,
There are so many hand-crafted presents
That have been sent to you by God.
The Beloved does not mind repeating,
"Everything I have is also yours."
There are so many gifts, my dear,
Still unopened from your birthday.
--Hafiz
Self-knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made.
--Johann Goethe

每天进步一点

每天重复做的事情是很重要的。这是你的习惯。比如说，每天花几十分钟，写写blog，做个小结，resharpen the saw.
每天进步一点是很重要的。改掉旧习惯，养成新习惯。比如说，今天又想打魔兽了，忍耐一下，玩一下vim，以后coding的时候用得着。
坚持每天做得更好一点是很重要的。学习新事物，养成新习惯，总是一个探索的过程，新生事物的出现总是会面临旧事物的阻挠，这个时候需要坚持、再坚持。比如说，前几天养成了慢跑的习惯，要坚持每天跑下去。

"流水不腐"，基本就是这个意思。

早睡早起，笨蛋！

睡觉重要还是写blog重要？

每天进步一点――今天把查理的爵士鼓练习19b给练下来了

值得纪念。
我记得上次练（很早了，好久没打了）的时候，怎么都练不下来，找不到感觉，也不喜欢这条节奏型。
上周去鼓友会，听国内最好的鼓手打鼓，听出来里面用到这条节奏型，原来我敲得太慢了，所以不好听。
收获：
1、一件事情，能不能做，最后还是在于你喜不喜欢做，愿不愿意做。困难不是问题，是可以克服的。所以，一定要open mind。
2、一定要去看最牛的人是怎么做这件事的。一件事情，怎么都做不好，不是你的问题，也不是这件事情的问题，而是做这件事情的方法不对。去看牛人是怎么做的，watch and learn，你就知道：啊！原来应该这么做！
3、Have fun! Don't settle.在所做到事情中找到乐趣，并且不断前进。练习的过程就是have fun的过程。

这是鼓，编程也是这样，学习也是这样。

好问题

What are you working on and why are you passionate about it?
What are your future plans?

每天进步一点――丢失的习惯

    小学时候有一个好习惯，就是做完作业再看电视。布置的家庭作业，回家以后赶紧做，如果足够抓紧，刚好是能在动画片开始之前做完。然后屁颠屁颠看动画片。后来不知道怎么这个习惯就丢了。如果有一个作业放在那里，自己会先看个电影，美其名曰放松一下，然后再吃点零食，上会网，跟朋友聊会天，再打会游戏，等到，哎呀，作业时间快来不及了，赶紧开始做。
    为什么丢了原来的好习惯，为什么越长大越懒？原因可能是这么几方面：1、客观上，作业多了难了。小学时候的作业最多一个小时可以做完（现在的小学生不止，得两个小时），现在的作业可能需要半天甚至一天还不一定能做完，拖的时间长了，就不容易集中注意力。2、主观上，自己的选择多了，而自己选择偷懒。因为时间的自由度，我可以选择在看完电影后做，可以选择在打会游戏后做，甚至还可以选择不做。――没人管，自己管自己就管不住了。
    解决办法：要善于集中时间、集中精力，在一段时间内集中精力解决一个问题。
    《成功杂志》庆祝创刊100周年时，编辑们节录了一些早期杂志中的优秀文章，其中最令人印象深刻的是一篇摘录文章。作者西奥多・瑞瑟在爱迪生的实验室外面扎营三个礼拜之后，才访问到这位著名的发明家。以下就是访谈的部分内容：
    瑞瑟："成功的第一要素是什么？"
    爱迪生："能够将你身体与心智的能量锲而不舍地运用在同一个问题上而不会厌倦的能力。你整天都在做事，不是吗？每个人都是。假如你早上7点起床，晚上11点睡觉，你做事就做了整整16个小时。对大多数人而言，他们肯定是一直在做一些事，惟一的问题是，他们做很多很多事，而我只做一件。假如你们将这些时间运用在一个方向、一个目的上，你们就会成功。"