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Friday Filosophy v.12.03.2021

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Friday Filosophy v.12.03.2021

Henry David Thoreau. July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. Thoreau’s books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism.

Thoreau was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the fugitive slave law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an anarchist. In “Civil Disobedience”, Thoreau wrote: “I heartily accept the motto,—’That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, ‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. … I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”

  • Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
  • It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
  • Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
  • The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
  • Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
  • If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
  • Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
  • Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
  • Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
  • Things do not change; we change.

The Time is Now

 

 

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Friday Filosophy #2016-17

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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 #2015-30

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With Friday Filosophy #2015-30 we are working here to get back into the routine of our technology updates.

With the fast pace of change in technological development I wanted to focus on some diverse views on technology. One day we will realize that we need to have the same amount of change and development in the sociological world as well.

Enjoy!

 

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Bill Gates

 

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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

Andrew Brown
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Freeman Dyson
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

 

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau
The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2015-28

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Friday Filosophy is back with #2015-28.  I hope you have all had a wonderful summer break.

 

The children are all back at school and the beginning of the second working half of the calendar begins.

 

Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

 

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

 

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Leonardo da Vinci

 

Let’s all get back to work.

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2015-12

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We are back on track with our Friday Filosophy #2015-12 taking place on a Friday!

 

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Henry David Thoreau

 

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

 

If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.

Author Unknown

 

The time is now.

Friday Filosophy #2014-38

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Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Japanese Proverb

 

From caring comes courage.

Lao Tzu

 

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Seven Behaviors That Really Successful People Have Mastered

  1. Positive Thinking
  2. Having Clear End Goals
  3. Taking Calculated Risks
  4. Learning From Other Successful People
  5. Building Real Relationships
  6. Managing Time Efficiently
  7. Never Stop Learning

The time is now…