Wisdom I Pondered This Week
- “Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” — Margaret Thatcher
- “Geschichte wurde stets in sich wiederholenden Formen überliefert.” (History has always been passed down in repetitive forms.)
- “Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “I’m not much but I’m all I have.” — Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip
- “In my whole life I’ve never been good at something I wasn’t very interested in. It just doesn’t work. There’s no substitute for strong interest.” — Charlie Munger
Things I Learned This Week
- A breadcrumb trail (麵包屑導航) is a graphical control element used as a navigational aid in user interfaces and on web pages. It allows users to keep track and maintain awareness of their locations within programs, documents, or websites.
- Kendo (劍道) & Judo (柔道): Modern Japanese martial art
- The
.DS_Store(= “Desktop Services Store”) file saves folder custom attributes in the macOS operating system. - Palo Alto is a city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. It’s one of the principal cities of Silicon Valley and home to Stanford University.
- A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show, or video game.
