Zitate

Make fun of the terrors we live with every day… or remind us to be afraid of things that we currently think are merely funny.

Cory Doctorow: “Older mechanical technologies make us see the world as deterministic, knowable and manipulable. New emergent technologies like the Internet teach us that control is an illusion, the universe is out of control and laughing at us, and that the more we watch and control, the more problems we have.”

“If we all reacted the same way, we’d be predictable, and there’s always more than one way to view a situation. Overspecialization leads to death.”
Major Kusanagi, ‘Ghost in the shell’

After he woke up, he wondered how he could determine whether he was Zhuangzi who had just finished dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly who had just started dreaming he was Zhuangzi.

Educational research involves identifying a problem, defining the problem, formulating a hypothesis that will be tested, determining the research methodology, collecting and analyzing the data, interpreting the results, and drawing conclusions about the data.

“Ich glaube, dass traurige Geschichten über konkretes Leiden gewöhnlich der bessere Weg sind, damit Leute ihr Verhalten ändern, als universale Regeln zu zitieren.”
Richard Rorty, Philosoph

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”
— A computer named WOPR (War Operation Plan Response) in the film WarGames