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"Dr. Robert Hare claims there are 300,000 psychopaths in Canada, but that only a tiny fraction are violent offenders like Paul Bernardo and Clifford Olsen. Who are the rest? Take a look around"
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psychopaths, especially when talking about things they should find emotional, such as their families, produce a higher frequency of beats than normal people. It's as if emotional language is a second language -- a foreign language, in effect -- to the psychopath.
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'You're walking down a street and there's an accident. A car has hit a child in the crosswalk. A crowd of people gather round. You walk up, the child's lying on the ground and there's blood running all over the place. You get a little blood on your shoes and you look down and say, "Oh shit." You look over at the child, kind of interested, but you're not repelled or horrified. You're just interested. Then you look at the mother, and you're really fascinated by the mother, who's emoting, crying out, doing all these different things. After a few minutes you turn away and go back to your house. You go into the bathroom and practice mimicking the facial expressions of the mother.'
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In Praise of Melancholy
"American culture's overemphasis on happiness misses an essential part of a full life"
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We are eradicating a major cultural force, the muse behind much art and poetry and music. We are annihilating melancholia.
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American culture's overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life.
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Dwelling in Possibilities
"They live to multiply possibilities. They're enemies of closure. For as much as they want to do and actually manage to do, they always strive to keep their options open, never to shut possibilities down before they have to."
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They live to multiply possibilities. They're enemies of closure. For as much as they want to do and actually manage to do, they always strive to keep their options open, never to shut possibilities down before they have to.
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Everyone now who is worth his tuition money double majors: The students in my classes are engineering/English; politics/English; chemistry/English.
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On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp
"Python is growing, but not towards Lisp. As Python becomes more popular, I expect advocates of other languages will try to claim it as a descendant of theirs"
Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal, by David Mamet
"I do not think that people are basically good at heart.... I think that people, in circumstances of stress, can behave like swine, and that this, indeed, is not only a fit subject, but the only subject, of drama."
Unqualified Reservations: What's wrong with CS research
"we have no need for dynamic higher-order programming. All we need is static higher-order programming. In fact, "static higher-order programming" has another name.... In Lisp and its many relatives, "static higher-order programs" are called macros."
The Art of Lisp & Writing
"The difference between Lisp and Java, as Paul Graham has pointed out, is that Lisp is for working with computational ideas and expression, whereas Java is for expressing completed programs."
What's the Matter with Liberals? - The New York Review of Books
«the "party of the people" chose to sacrifice the liberal economic policies that used to connect them to such voters on the altar of centrism [... as well as abandon attacks on] the GOP's tendency to demote "values" issues once elections are over.»
Lost Purposes
"Do you care about threats to your civilization? The worst metathreat to complex civilization is its own complexity, for that complication leads to the loss of many purposes."
Programming as if Performance Mattered - NOT!
"The big difference is that the code changes I made are substantially safer than running a program and having it silently hang the system. [...] Really, this is what those cycle-counting programmers from 1985 dreamed of."
Some Suggested Solutions to the Problems of Imperative Programming
"The Cowboys learned programming the hard way, through long hours 'in the saddle' (ie at the terminal) and expect everyone else to do the same. If you make mistakes, it is 'yer own darned fault'. Cowboys generally distrust 'book larnin' (theory)"
The Science Creative Quarterly » HOW I GOT OUT OF WRITING AN ESSAY ON H.G. WELL’S THE TIME MACHINE.
"Building a time machine is harder than I thought. There are all kinds of technical challenges I didn’t anticipate. Frustrated, I decide to make a mix tape with songs like Cher’s If I could Turn Back Time."
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