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Friday Filosophy #2016-17

Over the past three to four decades there has been many trillions of dollars spent on technology. Unfortunately there has not been the same investment in sociology. Friday Filosophy #2016-17 offers some timely quotes on technology.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

 

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

If someone tells you that you have a lot of potential when you are sixteen that is a complement. If that some someone tells you that you have a lot of potential at sixty six you have to ask what you have done for the past fifty years.

R.J. Slee

 

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

 

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

 

Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Carrier Snow

 

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards escalate.

Alvin Toffler

 

The internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

 

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-14

As I am late this week, my daughter is teasing me that I want it to be Friday already.

Our Friday Filosophy is aimed at inspiring people to stop and reflect on the subject of the week. To allow you to think about your situation and be inspired to grow as a person and as a professional.   With that in mind this week, in our Friday Filosophy #2016-14, we focus on personal growth.  

 

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E Frankl

 

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

The Dalai Lama

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

 

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

 

Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

 

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

 

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

 

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-3

With our Friday Filosophy #2016-3, I want to continue to focus on education, with some of the terms we like to use to describe intellect.  Intelligence and genius are interesting words with all manner of preconceived notions as to what they mean. So here are some interesting quotes to consider on Intelligence.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein.

 

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

 

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

 

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Aristotle.

 

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking.

 

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire.

 

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch.

 

There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination and wonder.

Ronald Reagan.

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2016-2

I believe that one of the most important personal attributes to have to enjoy your life and grow as a person is curiosity. If you are curious you will be asking a lot of questions of yourself and of others. Isn’t why a wonderful question to pose on anything, at any time, for any reason? This is true as long as the answer given to you is not “because.”

So, for Friday Filosophy #2016-2, here are some interesting quotes from some interesting people on curiosity.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

 

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e.e. cummings

 

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

James Stephens

 

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

 

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Daniel Boone

 

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Samuel Johnson

 

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Stephen Wright

 

The time is now.

 

 

Friday Philosophy #2015-24

For Friday Philosophy #2015-24 I wanted to share with you some ideas that came to me from one of the events of this week.

I was at a graduation ceremony earlier this week and heard the Headmaster talk about reading a biography of Albert Einstein. It moved me to share some of his quotes with you this week.

 

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

You have to learn the rules of the game and then you have to play better than anyone else.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk a sign.

There are many more. For those who are interested you can do a search on the man.

 

The time is now.

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Friday Filosophy #2014-49

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

 

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson

 

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

 

The time is now…