Showing posts with label tech. Show all posts
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Friday, March 1, 2013

Get Smart's Shoe Phone Foreshadows Cell Phones in the Theatre

'Get Smart' was a delightfully funny and clever tv show created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry in 1965, and starred Don Adams as Maxweel Smart Agent 86. In this clip Maxwell Smart's shoe phone not only foreshodows the coming of cell phones, but it also forshodows the problem with cell phones way before its time. For anyone who hasn't seen 'Get Smart', there are original episodes on YouTube. Current remakes just can't live up to the refreshingly silly and unique original...

 

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

20 Great Albert Einstein Quotes

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.