Quotes
Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational. ‘Communities of Practice’ are groups of people who share a concern (domain) or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better (practice) as they interact regularly (community).
–Etienne Wenger
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
–Mark Twain
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.
–William Blake
An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding.
–Germano Facetti
Indeed art is fundamental: to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating it to a secondary role, or that of an add on.
–John A. Hiigli
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and æsthetics and engineering. That kind of unity is needed once again.
–Ben Shneiderman
The single most important observation is that the objective of communication is not the transmission, but the reception. The whole preparation, presentation and content of a speech must therefore be geared not to the speaker but to the audience. The presentation of a perfect project plan is a failure if the audience do not understand or are not persuaded of its merits. A customers' tour is a waste of time if they leave without realizing the full worth of your product. The objective of communication is to make your message understood and remembered.
–Gerard M Blair
In this series of numbers each term is the sum of the previous two terms as follows:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, &c.
The division of any two adjacent numbers gives the amazing Golden number e.g. 34 ÷ 55 = 0.618 or inversely 55 ÷ 34 = 1.618.
It is called the ‘Fibonacci’ series after Leonardo of Pisa or (Filius Bonacci), alias Leonardo Fibonacci, born in 1175, whose great book The Liber Abaci (1202) , on arithmetic, was a standard work for 200 years and is still considered the best book written on arithmetic. It was the principal means of demonstrating and introducing the enormous advantages of the Hindu Arabic system of numeration over the Roman System.
–Filius Bonacci
I don’t think this has been fully understood by the United States… If you look at India, China and Russia, they all have strong education heritages. Even if you discount 90 percent of the people there as uneducated farmers, you still end up with about 300 million people who are educated. That’s bigger than the U.S. work force.
–Craig R. Barrett
