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Henry VI, part 2 Title page of the first quarto (1593) Play First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, or Henry VI, Part 2, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed written in approximately 1590-91. It is the second part of the trilogy on Henry VI, and often grouped together with ''Richard III'' as a...
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The Tempest Ariel taking on an illusionary form, at Prospero's command Play ...O brave new world, That has such people in't!
The Tempest is a comedy written by William Shakespeare. It is generally dated to 1610-11 and accepted as the last play written solely by him, although some scholars have argued for an earlier dating. While listed as a comedy in its initial...
Adapted Work We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep.
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The Luck of the Bodkins   Book ...the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
The Luck of the Bodkins is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 11, 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on January 3, 1936 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston. The story concerns amiable...
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Sudden Death   Book Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.  
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The Logic of Failure   Book An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...
In The Logic of Failure, Dietrich Dorner identifies the roots of catastrophe, the small, perfectly sensible steps that set the stage for disaster. In incisive analysis of real-life situations and often hilarious computer simulations he helps...
Written Work By labeling a bundle of problems with a single conceptual label, we make dealing with that problem easier - provided we're not interested in solving it.
Fantasy Island TV Program  
Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American fantasy television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network. Before it became a long-running original television show, Fantasy Island was introduced to viewers in...
Repo Man Film The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
Repo Man is a 1984 cult film directed by Alex Cox. It was produced by Jonathan Wacks and Peter McCarthy, with executive producer Michael Nesmith, and stars Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. Otto Maddox (Emilio Estevez), an alienated young punk...
Breakfast of Champions Breakfast Of Champions.jpg Book New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of...
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Contact The cover Book A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Contact is a science fiction novel written by Carl Sagan and published in 1985. A film adaptation of the novel starring Jodie Foster was released in 1997. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway is the director of "Project Argus," in which scores of radio...
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The Terminator Film  
The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction/action film directed and co-written by James Cameron. It features Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. The film takes place in 1984, introducing the concept of a "terminator",...
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Critique of Practical Reason cover of 1898 English edition of the Critique of Practical Reason Book Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...
The Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft in the original German) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788. It follows on from his Critique of Pure Reason and deals with his moral philosophy. ...
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2001: A Space Odyssey Poster for 2001: A Space Odyssey, an archetypal science fiction film Film Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and...
Work of Fiction I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Quotation Subject It can only be attributable to human error.
Award-Winning Work I'm sorry Frank, I think you missed it. Queen to bishop three, bishop takes queen, knight takes bishop, mate.
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Without Feathers Without-feathers Book What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen's Without Feathers (1975, ISBN 0-394-49743-0) is one of his best-known literary pieces. The book spent 4 months on the New York Times Bestseller List. The book is a collection of short stories and also features two one act plays, Death...
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The Blind Watchmaker Cover illustration by the zoologist Desmond Morris Book However many ways there are of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.
The Blind Watchmaker is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins in which he presents an explanation of, and argument for, the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. He also presents arguments to refute certain criticisms made on his previous book...
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The Point! Musical Album A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.
The Point! is a fable by American songwriter and musician Harry Nilsson about a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in The Pointed Village, where by law everyone and everything had to have a point. There have been, so far, at least three...
Steps to an Ecology of Mind   Book Information...is a difference that makes a difference.
Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson's short works over his long and varied career. Subject matter includes essays on anthropology, cybernetics, psychiatry and epistemology. It was originally published by Chandler...
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A Non-Aristotelian System and its Necessity for Rigour in Mathematics and Physics     The map is not the territory.  
Quality Software Management Volume 1: Systems Thinking   Book Quality is value to some person.  
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Usenet     PrepBut nI vrbLike adjHungarian! qWhat's artThe adjBig nProblem?
Usenet, a portmanteau of "user" and "network", is a world-wide distributed Internet discussion system. It evolved from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. It was conceived by Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and...
Essays: First Series   Book A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.  
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Four Quartets   Poem For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
Four Quartets is the name given to four related poems by T. S. Eliot, collected and republished in book form in 1943. They had been published individually from 1935 to 1942. Their titles are Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little...
Written Work We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Wired A sample of Wired covers. Wired 1.01 (the premiere issue), with Bruce Sterling's face on the cover, is shown to the right Magazine The trouble with traffic engineers is that when there’s a problem with a road, they always try to add something. To my mind, it’s much better to remove things.
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. Owned by Condé Nast Publications, it reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics. Wired's...
Periodical Ethanol is for drinking, not driving
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Revelations of Divine Love     Sin is behovely, but all shall be well...
The Revelations of Divine Love (which also bears the title A Revelation of Love — in Sixteen Shewings above the first chapter) is a book of Christian mystical devotions written by Julian of Norwich. It was the first published book in the English...
Tao Te Ching "Tao Te Ching", Calligraphy by Gia-Fu Feng Book The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels...
The Tao Te Ching or Dao De Ching , originally known as Laozi or Lao tzu , is a Chinese classic text. Its name comes from the opening words of its two sections: 道 dào "way," Chapter 1, and 德 dé "virtue," Chapter 38, plus 經 jīng "classic." According...
Religious Text He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm...
Written Work He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent...
The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.
Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao...
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Everybody's Autobiography   Book There is no there there.
Everybody's Autobiography is a book by Gertrude Stein, published in 1937. It is a continuation of her own memoirs, picking up where The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, published in 1933, left off. Both were written in a less experimental, more...
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The Myth of Sisyphus Sisyphus by Titian, 1549 Book There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...
The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus. It comprises about 120 pages and was published originally in 1942 in French as Le Mythe de Sisyphe; the English translation by Justin O'Brien followed in 1955. In the essay, Camus...
Written Work Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. Discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Edipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Medeasfhsdl Book The medium is the message.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is a 1964 book by Marshall McLuhan. The book is the source of the well-known phrase "The medium is the message". It was a leading indicator of the upheaval of local culture by increasingly globalized...
Written Work We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.
Gutenberg Galaxy     The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.  
The Bell Jar Belljarfirstedition Book To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.
The Bell Jar is American writer Sylvia Plath's only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963. The novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a...
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Tender is the Night Tender Is the Night book cover Book Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
Tender Is the Night is an English language novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January-April, 1934 in four issues. It is ranked #28 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th...
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Cover page of The Egoist, Ltd.'s publication of T. S. Eliot's poems Poem I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is the 1915 poem that marked the start of T. S. Eliot's career as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. The poem, also referred to simply as Prufrock, is one of the most anthologized 20th century...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Tom Sawyer 1876 frontispiece Book …[I]n order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous orphan taken in by his...
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Book In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, ISBN 0-345-39181-0) is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. It was originally published by Pan Books as a paperback. The book was...
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The Mysterious Stranger   Book Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time
The Mysterious Stranger is an unfinished work written by the American author Mark Twain that was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until his death in 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of...
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Last Chance to See The front cover of the first US hardcover edition of Last Chance to See Book Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others…
The book Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine was first published in 1990, as a companion to the BBC radio series of the same name. The theme of documentary was to feature animal species which were endangered or threatened with...
Written Work I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer…
Eleonora   Short Story They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night....
"Eleonora" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. It is often regarded as somewhat autobiographical and has a relatively "happy" ending. The story follows an unnamed narrator who lives with his cousin and aunt in "The Valley...
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Tradition and the individual talent     Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion…
"Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) is an essay written by poet and literary theorist T. S. Eliot. The essay was first published, in two parts, in "The Egoist" (1919) and later in Eliot's first book of criticism, "The Sacred Wood" (1920)....
The Gold-Bug An 1875 French translation of "The Gold-Bug" Short Story It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
"The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina involving deciphering a secret message and finding buried treasure. The story was first published in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper in June 1843 after...
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A Farewell to Arms