Quotations
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Quotes of the day
“…no amount of technology can turn a bad story into a good story. […] Storytelling is a real art, and that’s something that we’re always going to be working on very, very hard. I don’t think it’s changed in a long time, and I’m not sure it will. And I don’t think it’s something that the technology Continue reading
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A River Runs Through It
This is the ending of A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean. “Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them. “Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually Continue reading
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This adds up
“The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation for it.” —Eugene Wigner Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity.