Random Thoughts (5)

“适当的爆发，会让你感觉到自己仍然存在。”
------郑钧

The Certainty Bias

Only in the absence of certainty can we have open-mindedness, mental flexibility and willingness to contemplate alternative ideas.

---Robert Burton

Speech by Adrian Tan to the NTU graduating class of 08′

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddzjspjb_74hnmchcf8&hl=en

Adrian is best known for his fiction novels The Teenage Textbook and The Teenage Workbook.

Here is his bio...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Tan

Class

"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footed-ness that comes with having proved you can meet life."

--Ann Lander

Desire is the fuel of life

...
Jesse: ...and I just feel like I'm...
designed to be slightly dissatisfied with everything...
You know, I mean, like...
always trying to better my situation.
You know, I satisfy one desire, and it just...
agitates another, you know?
Then I think:to hell with everything, right?

I mean, desire is the fuel of life.
I mean, do you think it's true that if...
if we never wanted anything, we'd never be unhappy?

Celine: I don't know...

Jesse: Not wanting anything,isn't that...

Celine: a symptom of depression?
Jesse: Yeah, that is, right?
I mean, it's healthy to desire, right?
...
  ----------Before Sunset

怀旧

“那天到电影院看《变形金刚》，当看到影片中擎天柱首次亮相的场景：先是精彩震撼的汽车人变形，而后用深厚的嗓音说出‘我是擎天柱’时，唰的一下，我眼里全是泪水。”

------《调查显示80后青年进入加速怀旧时代》

Prologue

周慕容：我问你，从前有些人，心里有了秘密，而且不想被人知道，知道他们会怎么做？

阿炳：我怎么知道。

周：他们会跑到山上找一棵树，在树上挖一个洞，然后把秘密全说进去，再用泥把洞封上。那秘密会留在树里，没有人知道。

--------------花样年华