Il faut parfois un petit sacrifice pour prendre l'avantage
31.10.17
29.10.17
T’as bien entendu parler du rasoir d’Ockham, non ?
Ça
faisait du bien de savoir formellement au moins un truc.
Ouais, c’est un
axiome de base, connu aussi sous le nom de loi de la parcimonie.
“Toutes choses
étant égales par ailleurs,
l’explication la plus simple est généralement la
bonne.”
(in 22.11.63 de Stephen King)
23.10.17
Such was Flight Control in the final year before the lunar landing.
Assignments and opportunities came like a lightning flash.
There were no precedents, no guidelines.
All of a sudden you were given a job and you just did it—whatever it took.
(Gene Kranz, in Failure is not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond)
It wasn’t going to be easy to carry out Kraft’s new marching orders,
but Apollo succeeded at critical moments like this because the bosses had no hesitation about assigning crucial tasks to one individual,
trusting his judgment, and then getting out of his way.
(Gene Kranz, in Failure is not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond)
21.10.17
17.10.17
Ce qu'a exprimé Emmanuel Macron, c'est surtout une vision de caste (...).
Vous récapitulez: dans la vie, il y a les premiers de cordée, c'est ceux qui ont des sous, il ne faut pas leur jeter la pierre parce que sinon on est jaloux.
Et puis il y a les premiers de corvée, c'est tous les autres.
(Jean-Luc Mélenchon)
10.10.17
9.10.17
There are three types of people in this world: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs.
Some people prefer to believe that evil doesn't exist in the world, and if it ever darkened their doorstep, they wouldn't know how to protect themselves. Those are the sheep.
Then you've got predators who use violence to prey on the weak. They're the wolves.
And then there are those blessed with the gift of aggression, an overpowering need to protect the flock. These men are the rare breed who live to confront the wolf. They are the sheepdog.
(in American Sniper movie, Wayne Kyle to his sons)
Some people prefer to believe that evil doesn't exist in the world, and if it ever darkened their doorstep, they wouldn't know how to protect themselves. Those are the sheep.
Then you've got predators who use violence to prey on the weak. They're the wolves.
And then there are those blessed with the gift of aggression, an overpowering need to protect the flock. These men are the rare breed who live to confront the wolf. They are the sheepdog.
(in American Sniper movie, Wayne Kyle to his sons)
8.10.17
4.10.17
3.10.17
Le Sapiens, en revanche, ressemble plus au dictateur d’une république bananière.
Il n’y a pas si longtemps, nous étions les opprimés de la savane, et nous sommes pleins de peurs et d’angoisses quant à notre position, ce qui nous rend doublement cruels et dangereux.
Des guerres meurtrières aux catastrophes écologiques, maintes calamités historiques sont le fruit de ce saut précipité.
(in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Hariri)
1.10.17
I‘ve said it before: the area of dignity and respect is
my red line.
Let me be clear, it won’t be crossed without significant
repercussions.
So just in case you’re unclear on where I stand on
this topic, I’m going to leave you with my most important thought today
If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect, then you need to
get out.
If you can’t treat someone from another gender, whether that’s a man
or a woman, with dignity and respect, then you need to get out.
If you demean
someone in any way, then you need to get out.
And if you can’t treat someone
from another race, or a different color of skin, with dignity and respect, then
you need to get out.
If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect,
then get out,
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