Thinking Log 思考日誌

"To be human is to experience others and be experienced by others."

— exurb1a @YouTube

"The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining."

“Who I am is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be experienced.”

— Sisyphus55, It’s all about me

“The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.”

— Glenn Gould

"He who has a why can bear almost any how."

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Happiness

“Those who mind don’t matter, those who matter don’t mind.”

— Bertrand Baruch

“True nobility lies in lucid acceptance of the world, its beauties and its limits, its joys, its demands, its inhabitants, and our common lot.”

— Albert Camus

"A termination of one’s life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. [. . .] The fact that there is an end to one’s life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead."

— P. A. M. Dirac

“Some of the things a person believes in, he remarks, are not based on evidence but simply because they promote happiness, peace of mind or moral welfare.”

— Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, p. 221

“Manci, my darling, you are very dear to me. You have made a wonderful alteration to my life. You have made me human. I shall be able to live happily with you, even if I have no more success in my work. [. . .] I feel that life for me is worth living if I just make you happy and do nothing else.”

— Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, p. 285

“Think about yourself first. If nobody gets hurt, do it.”

— Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, p. 400

「生命的真實端在觀察與記憶⋯⋯要成為真實的人物，他們必須是完整的。」

— 普勞斯特女管家的回憶錄

了解這個世界終究還是要回到自己，了解自己終究還是要回到文字，無論是理解世界、自我、還是自己的文字，都只能平凡笨拙地，一天又一天，一個字又一個字的慢慢爬。

— 李維菁

「發生過的事不可能忘記，只是暫時想不起來而已。」

— 《神隱少女》

「務實的部分還是需要的。我想表達的是，人們需要五穀雜糧，也需要詩與遠方。如同加繆所說的：『真正嚴肅的哲學議題只有一個：那就是自殺。』一個不經省察的人生，終將在荒謬的世界裡喪失意義。而人之所以害怕死亡，是因為那天傍晚時分的夕陽，是因為某個深秋漫天飄落的飛葉，是因為曾經的我們，曾經那樣的活著。」

用功來讓自己有自信、不要追求完美、不要把事情想成是最糟的可能、要快樂、遇到歧視與挫折是讓自己變強的機會。

— 楊迦威教授，2023 吳健雄科學營

Physics describes but not prescribes

When writing codes, we should always do the following:
1. Avoid deep nesting
2. Avoid code duplication
3. Use understable naming

你只要明辨是非，後果是什麼不重要。

— "Snowpiercer"

真正勇敢的人，不是靠假裝不在乎，而是敢承認在乎但也忠於自己。

"Through the years, I have learned that there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration."

— Steve Martin

「喝醉了的人幾乎總是回得了家，但喝醉了的鳥可能永遠找不到回家的路。」

— Shizuo Kakutani

“We need a balanced and humane use of mathematics in these cases, and people who have not been trained in defensive mathematics will have difficulty defending their sound qualitative judgements against the onslaught of pseudo-quantitative studies."

— Murray Gell-Mann, Emerging Syntheses

"Nature's artistry is spontaneous, but not arbitrary."

— Phillip Balls, Natures Patterns A Tapestry in Three Parts