[...] at Versailles, no one of importance speaks quickly and spontaneously, every utterance is planned like a move in a chess game.
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Schlagwort: Analogie
Castling.
Fluffy Folders.
Take their phones away and get ‘em on Windows 98.
a suggestion mentioned in File not found: A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans by Monica Chin (The Verge)
Useful excuse inspiration.
I'm sorry, but my non-standard upbringing renders that simile utterly meaningless to me.
There is more than C major.
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren't flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.
Temperatur und Teilchenbewegung.
Das ist wie bei Supervenienz, da waren die Beispiele auch alle scheiße.
jemand im Grundstudium Philosophie