《唯 美》【转载】

January 14th, 2012

在自己的球迷博客上谈到了阿森纳球迷的理想主义和唯美倾向

想起了席慕容的一篇《唯 美》,特转载如下:

我不太喜欢别人说我是一个”唯美主义者”。  因为,在一般人对”唯美”的解释里,通常会带有一种逃避的意味。好像是如果有一个人常常只凭幻想来创作,或者他创作的东西与现实太不相合。我们在要原谅他的时候,就会替他找一些藉口,譬如说他是个”唯美主义者”等等。  而我一直觉得,真正的唯美应该是从自然与真实出发,从生活里去寻找和发现一切美的经验,这样的唯美才是比较健康的。因为,这样的努力是一种自助,而不是一种自欺。  就是说,我们面对现实,并不逃避。我们知道一切的事相都是流变,而且无法持久的。可是,我们要在这些零乱与流变的事相之下,找出那最纯真的一点东西,并且努力把它们挑出来,留下来,记起来。  这样,就算世间所有的事物都逐渐地改或者消失了,不管是我自己本身,或者是那些与我相对的物象,就算我们都在往逐渐改变与逐渐消失的路上走去了;但是,在这世间,毕竟有一东西是不会改变、不会消失的。那些东西,那些无法很精确地描绘出来,无法给它一个很确切的名字的东西,就是一种永远的美、永远的希望、永远的信心,也就是我们生命存在与延续唯一的意义。  这也就是,在九百年后,我们重读苏轼月夜泛舟的那一篇文章时,会有一种怅然而又美丽的心情的原因了。  我们明明知道那已是九百年前的事了,明明知道这中间有多少事物都永不会重回了,可是却又感受到那夜月色与今夜的并没有丝毫差别,那夜的赞叹与我们今夜的赞叹也没有丝毫差别;明光是飞驰而过了,然而,美的经验却从苏轼的心里,重新再完完整整地进入了我们的心中,并且久久不肯消逝。  这样的唯美,才是真正的唯美,也是我心向往之的境界。

December 24th, 2011

圣诞快乐 新年好!

史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)语录【转载】

October 7th, 2011

R.I.P 史蒂夫·乔布斯…

转载一:

http://www.36kr.com/p/51165.html

1. 关于电脑科技

“它执行的是这些非常简单的指令──‘拿个数字过来,和眼前的这个数字相加,然后看看结果是不是比原来的数字更大‘,但执行速度达到了比如每秒一百万次。按每秒100万次的速度,其结果就显得神奇了。”

2. 关于产品开发

On design

“要想按照大众的需求设计产品真的很难,在大多数情况下,人们根本就不知道自己需要什么产品,因此在他们知道自己的产品需求之前,主动告诉他们他们所需要的产品。”

3. 最具激励性的话

The best sales line ever?

“你是想卖一辈子的糖水还是想改变世界?”

4. 关于成长

On character

“我是我知道的唯一一个在一年中损失2.5亿美元的人,这对我的成长很有帮助。”

5. 关于产品设计

“‘专注和简单’是我一直坚信的产品设计原则。开发出简单易用的产品比开发出复杂的产品要困难得多,因为只有在你的思维极其清晰的情况下才能设计出简单的产品,虽然这需要下苦功夫,但却是值得的,如果你真的能够做到这一点,世界就会在你脚下。”

6. 关于人生

On his outlook

“成为坟墓中最富有的人对我来说毫无意义,能够在晚上睡觉前说声我今天做了了不起的事,这才是我在乎的。”

7. 在苹果的角色

On his role at Apple

“苹果并不是我一个人表演展示的地方,苹果的活力和成功来源于两个方面:一是公司里有很多富有天赋的人才,二是他们有卓越的管理团队。多年来,很多天才员工听到外界说他们是失败者,其中有些人连自己都快信。但他们不是失败者。他们缺少的是好的教练和的计划。现在,他们终于有了。”

8. 与苹果同在

He'll always come back

“我会永远和苹果保持联系。我希望在我的人生中,我的生命线和苹果的生命线永远交织在一起,永不分离。也许有一段时间我会不在苹果,但我一定会回到苹果的。”

Have faith in the future

“当你在向前展望的时候,你不可能将这些片断串连起来;你只能在回顾的时候将点点滴滴串连起来。所以你必须相信这些片断会在你未来的某一天串连起来。你必须要相信某些东西:你的勇气、目的、生命、因缘。这个过程从来没有令我失望,只是让我的生命更加地与众不同而已。

10. 关于工作

On your working life

“你的工作将会占据生活中很大的一部分。你只有相信自己所做的是伟大的工作时, 你才能怡然自得。如果你现在还没有找到, 那么继续找、不要停下来、全心全意的去找。与所有你心仪的事物一样,当你找到它时,你就会知道。就像任何伟大的友谊一样,它将会日久弥香。所以继续找,直到你找到它,不要停下来!”

11. 关于死亡

“没有人想死,即使那些梦想上天堂的人,也并不急于到那里。然而,死亡却是我们所有人的宿命,没有人能够逃脱它。事实上也应该如此。旧的不去,新的不来。只有清除掉了所有老朽的东西,才能为新生事物腾出空间。现在,你是新生事物,但是在不久的将来,你就会慢慢变老,而被清除掉。我很抱歉说得这样直接,但事实就是如此。”

12. 不要停留在一件事情上

Don't sit still

“如果你已经出色地完成了某件工作,你就应该尝试其它有意义的事情,不要再一件事情上停留太久,多想想下一步该做什么。

转载二:

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20111006/steve-jobs-quotes-111006/20111006/?hub=CalgaryHome

CTVNews.ca Staff

Steve Jobs, the former CEO and co-founder of Apple, made the world think in profound new ways thanks to the breakthrough technology he developed. Jobs was daring. He was brilliant. He also had a gift for turning a clever phrase. Now, as one of the fathers of the personal computing era passes on, we share these 15 inspirational quotes from Jobs.

On life:

“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” (Steve Jobs, 1985)

“You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” (Steve Jobs, 2005)

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” (Steve Jobs, 2005)

On money:

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me…Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful…that’s what matters to me.” (Steve Jobs, 1993)

On work:

“I didn’t see it then, but getting fired from Apple was one of the best things that ever happened to me.” (Steve Jobs, 2005)

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” (Steve Jobs, 2005)

On design:

“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” (Steve Jobs, 1985)

“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that.” (Steve Jobs, 1994)

On motivation:

“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” (Steve Jobs, 1998)

“When people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.” (Steve Jobs, 2000)

“There’s nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it’s the coolest product they’ve ever brought home in their lives. That’s what keeps me going. It’s what kept me five years ago, it’s what kept me going 10 years ago when the doors were almost closed. And it’s what will keep me going five years from now whatever happens.” (Steve Jobs, 2010)

On innovation:

“Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.

“And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.” (Steve Jobs, 2004)

On death:

“Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” (Steve Jobs, 2005)

“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: ‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.’ It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” (Steve Jobs, 2005)

祝中秋节愉快!

September 12th, 2011

时值中秋,友人发来了两幅漂亮的JPG:“一叶知秋”和“中秋赏月”

但在澳洲,中秋却不再是一叶知秋,而是绿叶知春

而墨尔本今天阴天,虽然无法天涯共明月,但我们总是能天涯共此时…

英女王爱尔兰国宴讲话-BBC

May 21st, 2011

来自火星男孩揭秘 – “貂尾续狗”?

March 22nd, 2011

有朋友转来一篇来自俄罗斯《真理报》》2010年10月2日的长篇“报道”:关于一个自称来自火星的男孩波力斯卡的神奇故事。

http://www.douban.com/group/topic/16824954/

(如果有兴趣有时间的话可以追根寻源一下,找出这篇报道的真正来源)

不了解的东西不可全信也不可不信,虽然这一向是我对待新鲜事物的态度,但因为这个故事太“神奇”,于是对这篇报道中的某些内容,产生了极大的怀疑,说白了,就是无法相信,呵呵

怀疑的部分主要是“报道”中关于美、英、俄三国组成了天文、物理、神学等专家对波力斯卡进行了“严肃的考问研究”,他们之间关于:中国,埃及,8325,广州,周易(河图和洛书)等等的对话…

因为在我看来,有关中国的一些对话,只能发生在中国科学家或哲学家或历史学家…与这个男孩之间,英,美,俄的各类学家们,再能个儿,如果没有专门研究中国的专家,他们也问不出(问不到)这些问题…

因为看不懂俄语,无法查找原文,既然是美,英,俄三国,就应该可以用英语来查找有关报道,我用的关键词是:boy from the mars,,8325, guangzhou …

时间有限,加上现在的google聪明过头,胡乱猜测用户意图,因此只查到了一篇英文的,内容完全和中文的一样,来源:Baidu Encyclopedia-百度百科

看来这篇英文也是翻译自中文

http://www.orble.com/buletree/

因此对查找结果作了一个断言:这篇报道中有关于中国的后半部分相当精彩,俄罗斯《真理报》内容可能仅限于前半部分,整篇报道应该是“貂尾续狗”?

后面的这一部分不仅很有知识性,而且我也认同其中的主要观点

在youtube上找到了美国的一个所谓的什么“行动”还是什么“计划”:Project Camelot Interviews Boriska-美国女记者对这个来自火星的男孩子的采访

看了采访的视频后,觉得自己“貂尾续狗”的判断应该是八九不离十

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Xcn436tyI

(网络的一个大问题就是天下文章一大抄,很难找出原作者,不过得空时,一定会试着去找这篇报道的真正来源)

February 2nd, 2011

祝兔年愉快,幸福安康

”澳大利亚人“的自私和羞愧

January 28th, 2011

Shame, as an Australian

Shame, we are so selfish!

虽然这个博客没什么人看,还是忍不住要更新一下,因为这几天对增加水灾税在澳洲各阶层及媒体引起的反响实在无语。

澳洲遇到了有史以来最严重的水灾,作为一个澳洲公民,虽然在墨尔本没有受到什么影响,但每时每刻都为这次在大水灾中遇难的昆斯兰人惋惜,为水灾中涌现出的那些无私的人们所感动,特别是那个为了弟弟放弃了生的机会的十来岁的男孩子…

水灾损失的严重是可想而知的,重建昆斯兰受灾地区需要57亿澳元($5.7 billion),为此政府提出了要对中,高收入的公民增加一次性的水灾税。

注意:这个税收仅对中,高收入的澳洲人,而且还是一次性的(12个月内收齐)。

ABC上有一相关新闻:《Economist quashes flood levy concerns》,税收甚微,本人觉得都不值得一提:

对年薪60,000澳元收入者(澳洲平均工资),水灾税增加的一次性税收仅为50澳元;而年收入超过100,000澳元的个人,水灾税也不过是一次性的250澳元。

意即:在今后12个月的期限内,中高收入的澳洲人每周多交给政府0.96元-4.81元,每天几毛钱而已!

但某些人开始担心“这会进一步抑制消费支出-will dampen consumer spending furtherr“,好笑不好?

悉尼人(那个代表着他们的政府)说:这对我们悉尼人来说不公平;

维省人(那个代表着我们的政府)说:收上来的税应该也有我们一份

想起了国内四川大地震时,各大城市马路上那长长的,等着献血的队伍….实在想不通澳大利亚人怎么会为了这点钱有那么多的担忧(concerns)?

其实我们心里很明白,这只不过是那些政客们的政治游戏,所以感到羞愧的不是我们,应该是他们!

Shame on them!

January 1st, 2011

新年好!

澳洲的中秋月

September 21st, 2010

中秋前夜,收到朋友邮件,问起澳洲天象:“明晚你们那月亮是不是也会圆?”

似乎问得很奇怪,因为15,16 这里的月亮自然也是圆的,不过其它日子,这边的月亮的确看起来和国内非常不同,感觉(不知为什么)是倒着的。记得第一次来澳州,乘长途车夜行,旷野之上,注意到那弯弯的蛾眉月更像低垂的娥眉,而不是在国内见惯了的弯弯的小船。

不是崇洋媚外,满月时,这里的月亮看起来也比国内看到的大而亮,而且更接近地面,这应该是来过澳州的国人的共同感觉?

中秋之际,佳节倍思亲,但想到因此无法吟一句“月是故乡明”,难免有些遗憾…

尽管如此,海上生明月,天涯共此时,祝天底下亲人和朋友们中秋愉快,阖家团圆幸福!