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| The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 7913-7916 | Added on Sunday, July 3, 2022 6:03:00 AM | |
| swiftly by us, as for the Elves. The old moon passed, and a new moon waxed and waned in the world outside, while we tarried there. And yestereve a new moon came again. Winter is nearly gone. Time flows on to a spring of little hope.’ The night passed silently. No voice or call was heard again across the water. The travellers huddled in their boats felt the changing of the weather. The air grew warm and very still under the great moist clouds that had floated up from the South and the distant seas. The rushing of the River over the rocks of the | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 8449-8453 | Added on Thursday, July 7, 2022 11:38:51 AM | |
| Day leaped into the sky. The red rim of the sun rose over the shoulders of the dark land. Before them in the West the world lay still, formless and grey; but even as they looked, the shadows of night melted, the colours of the waking earth returned: green flowed over the wide meads of Rohan; the white mists shimmered in the water-vales; and far off to the left, thirty leagues or more, blue and purple stood the White Mountains, rising into peaks of jet, tipped with glimmering snows, flushed with the rose of morning. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 8534-8535 | Added on Thursday, July 7, 2022 11:49:47 AM | |
| ‘The rumour of the earth is dim and confused,’ he said. ‘Nothing walks upon it for many miles about us. Faint and far are the feet of our enemies. But loud are the hoofs of the horses. It comes to my mind that I heard them, even as I lay on the | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 8535-8537 | Added on Thursday, July 7, 2022 11:49:53 AM | |
| ground in sleep, and they troubled my dreams: horses galloping, passing in the West. But now they are drawing ever further from us, riding northward. I wonder what is happening in this land!’ | |
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| - Your Bookmark on Location 8795 | Added on Saturday, July 9, 2022 8:27:47 AM | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 8133-8133 | Added on Saturday, July 9, 2022 8:30:47 AM | |
| But everywhere he looked he saw the signs of war. The Misty Mountains were crawling like anthills: orcs were | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 8133-8139 | Added on Saturday, July 9, 2022 8:31:10 AM | |
| issuing out of a thousand holes. Under the boughs of Mirkwood there was deadly strife of Elves and Men and fell beasts. The land of the Beornings was aflame; a cloud was over Moria; smoke rose on the borders of Lórien. Horsemen were galloping on the grass of Rohan; wolves poured from Isengard. From the havens of Harad ships of war put out to sea; and out of the East Men were moving endlessly: swordsmen, spearmen, bowmen upon horses, chariots of chieftains and laden wains. All the power of the Dark Lord was in motion. Then turning south again he beheld Minas Tirith. Far away it seemed, and beautiful: white-walled, many-towered, proud and fair upon its mountain-seat; its battlements glittered with steel, and its turrets were bright | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 8139-8143 | Added on Saturday, July 9, 2022 8:31:33 AM | |
| with many banners. Hope leaped in his heart. But against Minas Tirith was set another fortress, greater and more strong. Thither, eastward, unwilling his eye was drawn. It passed the ruined bridges of Osgiliath, the grinning gates of Minas Morgul, and the haunted Mountains, and it looked upon Gorgoroth, the valley of terror in the Land of Mordor. Darkness lay there under the Sun. Fire glowed amid the smoke. Mount Doom was burning, and a great reek rising. Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. All hope left him. | |
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| - Your Bookmark on Location 7788 | Added on Saturday, July 9, 2022 8:31:50 AM | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9223-9224 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:32:05 AM | |
| Where all had looked so shabby and grey before, the wood now gleamed with rich browns, and with the smooth black-greys of bark like polished leather. The boles of the trees glowed with a soft | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9224-9225 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:32:10 AM | |
| green like young grass: early spring or a fleeting vision of it was about them. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9246-9247 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:33:24 AM | |
| ‘One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present; like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9248-9250 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:33:34 AM | |
| it felt as if something that grew in the ground – asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between root-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9308-9309 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:36:26 AM | |
| ‘Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9309-9309 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:36:30 AM | |
| part of the world was shaped. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9450-9451 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 7:56:16 AM | |
| He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for growing things, except as far as they serve him for the moment. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9661-9664 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:17:07 AM | |
| Birds used to flock there. I like birds, even when they chatter; and the rowan has enough and to spare. But the birds became unfriendly and greedy and tore at the trees, and threw the fruit down and did not eat it. Then Orcs came with axes and cut down my trees. I came and called them by their long names, but they did not quiver, they did not hear or answer: they lay dead. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9709-9710 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:27:05 AM | |
| We are made of the bones of the earth. We can split stone like the roots of trees, only quicker, far quicker, if our minds are roused! If we are not hewn down, or destroyed by fire | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9709-9710 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:27:14 AM | |
| We are made of the bones of the earth. We can split stone like the roots of trees, only quicker, far quicker, if our minds are roused! If we are not hewn down, or destroyed by fire or | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9710-9711 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:27:19 AM | |
| blast of sorcery, we could split Isengard into splinters and crack its walls into rubble.’ ‘But Saruman | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9710-9711 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:27:27 AM | |
| blast of sorcery, we could split Isengard into splinters and crack its walls into rubble.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9995-9996 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:49:21 AM | |
| The grey figure of the Man, Aragorn son of Arathorn, was tall, and stern as stone, his hand upon the hilt of his sword; he looked as if some king out of the mists of the sea had | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 9996-9997 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 8:49:26 AM | |
| stepped upon the shores of lesser men. Before him stooped the old figure, white, shining now as if with some light kindled within, bent, laden with years, but holding a power beyond the strength of kings. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10060-10060 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 9:31:58 AM | |
| and then faint and far off it seemed to them | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10088-10089 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 2:15:29 PM | |
| Slowly the sun fell from the sky down into the West. Looking out over the great plain, far away the riders saw it for a moment like a red fire sinking into | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10089-10090 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 2:15:39 PM | |
| the grass. Low upon the edge of sight shoulders of the mountains glinted red upon either side. A smoke seemed to rise up and darken the sun’s disc to the hue of blood, as if it had kindled the grass as it passed down under the rim of earth. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10241-10242 | Added on Sunday, July 10, 2022 2:48:02 PM | |
| ‘That is so,’ said Wormtongue; ‘but there is a third kind: pickers of bones, meddlers in other men’s sorrows, carrion-fowl that grow fat on war. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10500-10501 | Added on Monday, July 11, 2022 3:44:23 AM | |
| It is not mist or cloud that defeats my eyes: there is a veiling shadow that some power lays upon the land, and it marches slowly down stream. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10501-10501 | Added on Monday, July 11, 2022 3:44:27 AM | |
| It is as if the twilight under endless trees were flowing downwards from the hills.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10887-10888 | Added on Friday, July 15, 2022 2:15:27 PM | |
| Legolas, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10900-10901 | Added on Friday, July 15, 2022 2:18:40 PM | |
| We would tend these glades of flowering stone, not quarry them. With cautious skill, tap | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10926-10928 | Added on Friday, July 15, 2022 10:22:05 PM | |
| were answered; and turning again, the riders saw other creatures of the same kind approaching, striding through the grass. They came swiftly from the North, walking like wading herons in their gait, but not in their speed; for their legs in their long paces beat quicker than the heron’s wings. The riders cried aloud in wonder, and some set their hands upon their sword-hilts. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10947-10948 | Added on Saturday, July 16, 2022 1:02:07 AM | |
| as they rode out from the shadow of the hills and looked west to the Gap of Rohan the sky was still red, and a burning light was under the floating clouds. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 10950-10951 | Added on Saturday, July 16, 2022 1:19:03 AM | |
| The slow moon mounted, now waxing towards the full, and in its cold silver light the swelling grass-lands rose and fell like a wide grey sea. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 11529-11530 | Added on Sunday, July 17, 2022 11:32:15 PM | |
| What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 11530-11530 | Added on Sunday, July 17, 2022 11:32:23 PM | |
| the floor among the dogs? | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 12472-12474 | Added on Monday, July 18, 2022 2:02:42 AM | |
| The Eye: that horrible growing sense of a hostile will that strove with great power to pierce all shadows of cloud, and earth, and flesh, and to see you: to pin you under its deadly gaze, naked, immovable. So thin, so frail and thin, the veils were become that still warded it off. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 12890-12892 | Added on Monday, July 18, 2022 3:06:22 PM | |
| Frodo’s face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiselling of the shaping years was now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the identity of the face was not changed. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 13058-13060 | Added on Monday, July 18, 2022 11:54:59 PM | |
| He wondered what the man’s name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace – all in a flash of thought which was quickly driven from his mind. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 13849-13851 | Added on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 8:58:39 PM | |
| There, far away, beyond sad Gondor now overwhelmed in shade, the Sun was sinking, finding at last the hem of the great slow-rolling pall of cloud, and falling in an ominous fire towards the yet unsullied Sea. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 15106-15107 | Added on Sunday, August 14, 2022 5:55:29 AM | |
| But in the West the dying sun had set all the fume on fire, and now Mindolluin stood black against a burning smoulder flecked with embers. ‘So | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 15490-15490 | Added on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 3:57:23 AM | |
| red-stained by the sunset in the West. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1123-1123 | Added on Thursday, December 15, 2022 4:06:00 PM | |
| ‘like a cage of tumultuous nightingales’. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2423-2424 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:29:13 AM | |
| ‘swept the town of Calcutta with the broom of plunder’, | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2439-2439 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:30:52 AM | |
| The cell was known as the Black Hole. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2482-2483 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:33:55 AM | |
| But Clive was not going to miss his big chance, especially as he had just lost | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2483-2483 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:33:58 AM | |
| substantial sums invested both directly in Bengal and indirectly in Company stock. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2545-2546 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:05:22 PM | |
| Government House, St Anne’s church and the grand mansions lining the river were all burned-out shells, rising jagged from the loot-littered riverfront like blackened, shattered teeth from a diseased gum. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2654-2654 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:18:42 PM | |
| the Monsieurs hung out a flag & surrendered at discretion. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2680-2680 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:30:20 PM | |
| ‘For the arrow of fate cannot be parried by the shield of effort once God’s decree has already passed another way.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2821-2822 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:47:00 PM | |
| islands of land appeared to float amid network of streams and rivers and fish-filled, lily-littered pukhur ponds. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2947-2948 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:57:37 PM | |
| His body was hacked to pieces, and by strokes without number, and the mangled | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2948-2950 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:57:41 PM | |
| carcase being thrown across the back of an elephant, was carried throughout the city.86 Siraj ud-Daula was only twenty-five years old. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2955-2955 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:58:14 PM | |
| “having ridden | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2955-2955 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:58:17 PM | |
| an elephant before, I cannot now agree to ride an ass.”’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2976-2976 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:59:39 PM | |
| This was the moment a commercial corporation first acquired real and tangible political power. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2981-2982 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 12:59:53 PM | |
| the British themselves described as ‘the shaking of the pagoda tree’. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3001-3002 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:00:52 PM | |
| ‘a throne warm with the blood of his Lord’.93 From now on there would | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3001-3001 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:00:56 PM | |
| ‘a throne warm with the blood of his Lord’. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3047-3048 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:13:55 PM | |
| attempt everything through treachery rather than force. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3054-3055 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:14:21 PM | |
| Mir Jafar clearly thought was a single sovereign ruler rather than an impersonal corporate board made up of rich London merchants. In | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3116-3117 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:27:01 PM | |
| the list of potential victims he kept scribbled in a special pocket book soon extended past 300. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3130-3132 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:29:24 PM | |
| by 1762–3, Archibald Keir was employing 13,000 men to manufacture 12,000 tons of salt, although the trade was officially out of bounds to any but the Nawab. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3148-3148 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:31:46 PM | |
| The country lies groaning under the Anarchy, | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3183-3184 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:34:10 PM | |
| am tired of complaining to people who are strangers to justice, remorse or shame.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3214-3215 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:35:43 PM | |
| Mir Jafar and offered their support to the young Emperor in his quixotic quest to rebuild the hollowed-out Mughal imperium.30 | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3214-3215 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:35:47 PM | |
| large numbers of the old Mughal nobility of Bengal had thrown off their allegiance to Mir Jafar and offered their support to the young Emperor in his quixotic quest to rebuild the hollowed-out Mughal imperium.30 | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3217-3218 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:35:56 PM | |
| like some rotting carcass preyed upon by rival packs of jackals, what was left of its riches provided intermittent sustenance to a succession of passing armies, | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3218-3219 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:36:01 PM | |
| as the city was alternately occupied and looted by Maratha raiders from the south and Afghan invaders from the north. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3247-3248 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:37:19 PM | |
| this penniless wanderer was now widely regarded as the de jure ruler of almost all of India, able to issue much-coveted imperial titles. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3291-3292 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:46:21 PM | |
| ‘remove the cotton wool of negligence from their ears’. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3356-3357 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 1:53:07 PM | |
| people initially loved the idea of the return of the good order of Mughal government, but instead they ‘experienced from his unruly troops, and from his disorderly generals, every act of oppression and extortion imaginable; | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3562-3563 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 2:21:28 PM | |
| So it was that Mir Qasim finally met his Emperor, the Refuge of the World, sitting on a makeshift throne, within an East India Company opium factory. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3821-3822 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:29:50 PM | |
| made a slaughter such as on the Day of Judgement, with the cries of the damned rising all around! Many – those who awoke and were not slaughtered in their sleep – in their panic ran to escape over the monsoon-swollen river, | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3866-3867 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:32:52 PM | |
| we gave him water, which ran out of the wound in his neck. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3874-3877 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:33:53 PM | |
| Enough! My life flickers away, a solitary candle, Flames from its head, waxy tears flow down its skirts Your flirtatious beauty, my dark days, all will pass, | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3878-3881 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:33:58 PM | |
| A king’s dawn, a pauper’s evening, all will pass The garden visitor, the laughing rosebud, both are fleeting Grief and joy, all will pass.17 | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3975-3975 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:38:31 PM | |
| had with him, as Gentil put it, ‘all the accumulated wealth | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3975-3977 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:38:36 PM | |
| of Bengal, which he had extracted from the landholders, who had themselves been pillaging this rich province since time immemorial’.29 | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4001-4001 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:40:04 PM | |
| He is occupied in nothing except pleasure, hunting and the most violent exercises.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4039-4040 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:42:43 PM | |
| His Highness of Bengal sent to His Majesty 21 trays of precious robes and jewels, as well as elephants majestic as mountains. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4056-4057 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:43:40 PM | |
| still, somewhat ironically, dressed in the uniform of the Company. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4057-4058 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:43:49 PM | |
| a large force of 6,000 dreadlocked Hindu Naga sadhus, who fought mainly on foot with clubs, swords and arrows, ash-painted but entirely naked, under their own much-feared Gossain leaders, the | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4098-4099 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:46:38 PM | |
| that in the very middle of the camp, they fought, killed and murdered each other, and went out a-plundering and a-marauding without the least scruple or the least control. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4115-4117 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:47:37 PM | |
| It was the Naga sadhus, ‘naked before and behind’, who bore the brunt of the fire. They were mown down in their hundreds, but high on their bhang (hash-ish), wave after wave kept running on towards the English entrenchments, regardless of the danger. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4126-4126 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:48:14 PM | |
| as if the hand of Fate were slapping the face of Time. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4213-4214 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 3:52:18 PM | |
| Then they promptly dismounted and began to loot. Thereafter they were lost to Shuja’s control and played no further part in the battle. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4266-4266 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:00:06 PM | |
| The result was what Adam Smith would call ‘a strange absurdity’ – a Company State. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4343-4344 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:08:26 PM | |
| Conjuncture which renders it necessary for us to determine whether we can, or shall, take the whole [Mughal Empire] to ourselves.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4387-4388 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:16:02 PM | |
| was done and finished in less time than would usually have been taken up for the sale of a jack-ass or a beast of burden.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4424-4425 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:19:13 PM | |
| I am arrived at the pinnacle of all that I covet, by affirming the Company shall, in spite of all the envy, malice, faction and resentment, acknowledge they are become the most opulent company in the world.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4525-4526 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:35:36 PM | |
| 76,000 died on its streets between July and September. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4526-4528 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:35:43 PM | |
| The total numbers are disputed, but in all perhaps 1.2 million – one in five Bengalis – starved to death that year in what became one of the greatest tragedies of the province’s history. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4597-4598 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:42:08 PM | |
| they stockpiled was for the use of the sepoys of their own army; | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4614-4615 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:42:49 PM | |
| height of the Bengal famine, an astounding £1,086,255 was transferred to London by Company executives – perhaps £100 million in modern currency. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4650-4651 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:44:35 PM | |
| this was one of the highest points the Company share price would ever reach; and that what lay ahead was an extended period of | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4651-4652 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:44:39 PM | |
| unprecedented ill fortune for the Company – financial, political and military – that would do immense damage to the EIC both at home and abroad, bringing it close to bankruptcy and complete closure. Already, | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4775-4776 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:52:37 PM | |
| ‘Do these Events any-wise affect your Theory? Or will it occasion the Revisal of any | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4776-4776 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:52:43 PM | |
| Chapters [of The Wealth of Nations]?’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4801-4802 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:58:14 PM | |
| This cursed Company would, at last, like a viper, be the destruction of the country which fostered | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4802-4803 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:58:18 PM | |
| at its bosom.’55 At the same | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4802-4803 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:58:28 PM | |
| at its bosom.’55 At the same time it was widely recognised | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4802-4802 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:58:35 PM | |
| it | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4802-4803 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:58:39 PM | |
| it at its bosom.’55 At the same time it was widely recognised | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4803-4805 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:58:47 PM | |
| that it was Indian wealth that was now helping propel Britain’s economy and that ‘the first and most immediate consequence’ of the failure of the EIC would be ‘national bankruptcy’, or what amounted to the same thing, ‘a stop to the payment of interest on the national debt’.56 | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4802-4805 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:58:51 PM | |
| it at its bosom.’55 At the same time it was widely recognised that it was Indian wealth that was now helping propel Britain’s economy and that ‘the first and most immediate consequence’ of the failure of the EIC would be ‘national bankruptcy’, or what amounted to the same thing, ‘a stop to the payment of interest on the national debt’.56 | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4809-4810 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 4:59:06 PM | |
| Empire’.57 This was certainly the view of the King. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4857-4859 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 5:01:03 PM | |
| The world’s first aggressive multinational corporation was saved by one of history’s first mega-bailouts, an early example of a nation state extracting, as its price for saving a failing corporation, the right to regulate and rein it in. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4913-4914 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 5:04:06 PM | |
| ‘Dark allusions, mysterious insinuations, bitter invective and ironical reflections are weapons to which I have become accustomed,’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4949-4950 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 5:07:57 PM | |
| the government of this fine country should continue to be a mere chair for a triennial succession of indigent adventurers to sit and hatch private fortunes in.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 5240-5243 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 6:05:03 PM | |
| ‘The last and most awful struggle was marked by the clashing of arms and shields, the snorting and kicking of horses, the snapping of spears, the glistening of bloody swords, oaths and imprecations; concluded with the groans and cries of mutilated men, wounded horses tumbling to the ground amid dying soldiers, the hideous roaring of elephants as they trampled about and wielded their dreadful chains amongst both friends and foes.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 5326-5326 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 6:08:36 PM | |
| ‘casting their eyes on America as a new theatre whereon to exercise their talents of rapine, oppression and cruelty | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 5330-5330 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 6:08:51 PM | |
| ‘But thank GOD, we are not Sea Poys, nor Marattas.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 5477-5478 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 7:48:38 PM | |
| By 1772, maggots were dropping from the upper part of his putrefying nose into his mouth and his food as he ate. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 5604-5606 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 8:00:20 PM | |
| ‘At first the poorer people came out; they were stripped and searched and let off almost naked. Seeing this, the rich people threw caskets full of gems and money down from the ramparts into the wet ditch to conceal them. Others swallowed their gold coins.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6045-6046 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 8:35:41 PM | |
| you for whom men afloat upon the ocean of the world once set their course as to the promised shore, you from whose dust men came to gather pearls. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6290-6291 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:32:33 PM | |
| ‘By the orders of Scindia, the ears of Ghulam Qadir were cut off and hung around his neck, his face was blackened, and he was carried around the city.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6310-6311 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:33:13 PM | |
| We suckled the spawn of a serpent, we nurtured him But in the end, he became our executioner | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6314-6318 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:33:19 PM | |
| Now Fate has rendered our sufferings eternal Now that this young Afghan has destroyed the dignity of my State, I see none but thee, Most High! Lord, have pity on me, A | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6358-6360 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:34:40 PM | |
| Warren Hastings stood accused of nothing less than the rape of India – or as Burke put it in his opening speech, ‘with injustice and treachery against the faith of nations’: With various | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6363-6364 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:34:53 PM | |
| nothing that does not argue a total extinction of all moral principle, | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6390-6390 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:36:00 PM | |
| Burke’s opening speech alone took four days. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6559-6560 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:45:10 PM | |
| Remember above all that valour can elevate us to the throne, but it does not suffice to keep it. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6663-6664 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 9:50:34 PM | |
| Low-caste followers were forced to survive on the decaying flesh of dead bullocks. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6702-6704 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:02:36 PM | |
| ‘infectious exhalations from millions of putrid carcases that cover the whole surface of the earth for twenty miles around the capital’, he wrote, could not blind him to the astonishing loveliness of the city he was engaged in besieging: | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6706-6708 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:02:49 PM | |
| Tipu made a series of ineffectual counter-attacks, but, as the hopelessness of his position became apparent, more and more of his troops deserted and he was forced to send a message to Cornwallis, through some captured Company officers, suggesting peace negotiations. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6720-6721 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:03:24 PM | |
| ‘Know you not the custom of the English?’ he wrote. ‘Wherever they fix their talons they contrive little by little to work themselves into the whole management of affairs.’ One | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6743-6743 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:04:24 PM | |
| Anglo-Indians had been reduced to a community of minor clerks, postmen and train drivers. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6804-6805 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:07:51 PM | |
| ‘the Maratha princes bore less resemblance to a confederacy than to a bag of ferrets’. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6812-6812 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:08:08 PM | |
| In Hindustan, anarchy smothers the hope of anything good germinating or sprouting: | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7036-7037 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:24:23 PM | |
| and to introduce into your kingdom the principles of anarchy and confusion and … to destroy the religion which you revere.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7092-7093 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:30:44 PM | |
| As he is alleged to have said when he heard the news that Wellesley’s invasion of his kingdom had begun, ‘I would rather live a day as a lion than a lifetime as a sheep | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7105-7106 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:31:35 PM | |
| stripping the country bare ‘of every article of subsistence the country can afford’ like some vast cloud of locusts. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7140-7142 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:35:39 PM | |
| Tipu gave them ‘three elephants, two buffaloes, a bullock and a she-goat’, as well as an iron pot full of oil, used for divination, asking them to ‘pray for the prosperity of the Empire’. He now suspected himself doomed. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7173-7174 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:37:02 PM | |
| the objects of horror, the ghastly spectacle, presented to the senses by the bodies of the slain, in every attitude, and in every direction; lying in the verandas and along the principal street.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7176-7178 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:37:14 PM | |
| ‘Scarcely a house in the town was left unplundered, and I understand that in camp jewels of the greatest value, bars of gold etc etc have been offered for sale in the bazaars of the army by our soldiers, sepoys and followers. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7195-7196 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:37:54 PM | |
| ‘everything that power could command, or money could purchase.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7200-7201 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:38:15 PM | |
| Unable to decide who to award it to, the Prize Agents cut it up into small pieces, so destroying one of the great wonders of eighteenth-century India. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7216-7217 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:39:10 PM | |
| She was happy to oblige. In this way, with very little outlay, she casually accumulated one of Europe’s most impressive collections of Indo-Islamic art. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7232-7233 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:40:00 PM | |
| ‘Ladies and gentlemen,’ said Lord Wellesley, raising a glass, when the news of Tipu’s death was brought to him, ‘I drink to the corpse of India.’ | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7274-7274 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:43:53 PM | |
| Jaswant Rao Holkar, the one-eyed ‘Bastard of Indore’. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7311-7313 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:46:52 PM | |
| an extraordinary crumbling city full of decaying Jesuit churches and overgrown Dominican convents, all slowly beginning to return to the jungle, with mighty banyan trees corkscrewing through the broken baroque pediments and collapsing cloisters. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7437-7437 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:54:40 PM | |
| around twice the size of the British army. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7452-7454 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:56:40 PM | |
| succeeded in war precisely because it had found a way to provide a secure financial base for its powerful mercenary army, and always found it easier than any of its rivals to persuade Indian seths, sahukaras and shroffs quickly to realise the cash needed to pay the army’s salaries and feed its hungry troops. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7478-7481 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:58:35 PM | |
| Here Wellesley’s masterstroke was to send Holkar a captured letter from Scindia in which the latter plotted with Peshwa Baji Rao to overthrow Holkar after the war was over: ‘Let us make a show of satisfying his demands,’ wrote Daulat Rao. ‘After the war is over, we shall both wreak our full vengeance upon him.’101 | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7486-7487 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:59:14 PM | |
| Wellesley was developing an aggressive new conception of British Empire in India, not as a corporate but as a state enterprise; | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7489-7491 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 10:59:27 PM | |
| ‘that no Native State should be left to exist in India which is not upheld by the British power, or the political conduct of which is not under its absolute control.’103 It was from this idea of total British government control over the entire Indian peninsula that would grow the British Raj | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7546-7547 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:06:03 PM | |
| altogether tougher than his later confrontation with Napoleon at Waterloo. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7559-7561 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:08:40 PM | |
| The horrifying sight of the headless horseman features in many accounts of the battle, ‘the body being kept in its seat by the valise, holsters, and other appendages of a cavalry saddle, and it was some time before the terrified horse could rid himself of the ghastly burden’. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7592-7593 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:12:21 PM | |
| Lord Lake, who liked to claim descent from the Arthurian hero Lancelot of the Lake, | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7603-7603 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:13:03 PM | |
| In the end, the total body heading west amounted to more than 100,000 people, | |
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| Pedron and many of Perron’s French mercenary colleagues were equally happy to surrender if they were assured of a safe passage home with their lifetimes’ savings intact. | |
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| scarcely a man of them escaped for those who swam the ditch were cut up by the troopers on the plain, and all we found in the place were bayonetted. | |
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| the river appeared boiling by the fire of grape kept up on those of the enemy who had taken to the river. It was literally, for a time, a stream of blood, and presented such a scene as at another period would freeze a man’s very soul. | |
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| death in every shape seemed to preside in this assembly of human misery. | |
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| The deer lies down with the leopard, the fish with the shark, the pigeon with the hawk, and the sparrow with the eagle.’ | |
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| with the usual Mughal sense of time-keeping, did not appear until 3 p.m., when | |
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| But now, such is the vanity of earthly grandeur, and the uncertainty of mortal power, the descendant of the great Akbar, and the victorious Aurangzeb, was found, an object of pity, blinded and aged, stripped of authority, and reduced to poverty, seated under a small tattered canopy, the fragment of regal state, and the | |
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| mockery of human pride. Such a scene could not fail to make a deep impression on the minds of those who beheld it.157 According to the | |
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| court of his grandson to become the centre of the greatest anti-colonial revolt in history. | |
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| ‘were it not, indeed, that the locality of its wealth is at so remote a distance, the very existence of such a body would be dangerous, not merely to the liberty of the subject, but to the stability of the state’. | |
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| Finally, on 10 May 1857, the EIC’s own private army rose up in revolt against its employer. | |
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| finally quietly shutting down in 1874, ‘with less fanfare,’ noted one commentator, ‘than a regional railway bankruptcy’. | |
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| Its brand name is now owned by two brothers from Kerala who use it to sell ‘condiments and fine foods’ from a showroom in London’s West End. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 7980-7982 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:41:26 PM | |
| It was an hour before sunset, that beautiful moment north Indians call godhulibela – cow-dust time – and the Yamuna glittered in the evening light as brightly as a scattering of Mughal gems. | |
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| India’s transition to colonialism took place through the mechanism of a for-profit corporation, which existed entirely for the purpose of enriching its investors. | |
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| while the latter can be regulated, the corporation will use all the resources in its power to resist. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 8000-8002 | Added on Saturday, December 17, 2022 11:42:29 PM | |
| The corporation – the idea of a single integrated business organisation stretching out across the seas – was a revolutionary European invention contemporaneous with the beginnings of European colonialism that upended the trading world of Asia and Europe, and which helped give Europe its competitive edge. | |
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| Yet the idea of the joint stock company is arguably one of Britain’s most important exports to India, and the one that has for better or worse changed South Asia as much any other European idea. | |
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| For Western imperialism and corporate capitalism were born at the same time, and both were to some extent the dragons’ teeth that spawned the modern world. | |
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| By considering these past lives, take heed for your own future. | |
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| Instead Empire is transforming itself into forms of global power that use campaign contributions and commercial lobbying, multinational finance systems and global markets, corporate influence and the predictive data harvesting of the new surveillance-capitalism rather than – or sometimes alongside – overt military conquest, occupation or direct economic domination to effect its ends. | |
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| For Seymour, computers were not a replacement for the teacher but a new medium that children could use for making things and expressing themselves. | |
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| “My central focus is not on the machine but on the mind.” | |
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| In the book, he lays the intellectual foundation for an educational theory that he later named “constructionism.” | |
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| constructing knowledge through their everyday interactions with people and objects around them. | |
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| children construct knowledge most effectively when they are actively engaged in constructing things in the world. | |
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| Seymour saw the computer not just as a problem-solving tool but as an expressive medium. He believed that learning to program was analogous to learning to write, | |
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| Seymour was interested in applying ideas from ai to engage children in thinking about their own thinking—and learning about their own learning. Most of today’s ai-in-education initiatives have a very different set of goals, focusing on the use of machine intelligence, rather than the understanding of human intelligence. | |
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| “I fell in love with the gears.” | |
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| “Education has very little to do with explanation, it has to do with engagement, with falling in love with the material.” | |
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| children don’t want things to be easy: They’re willing to work very hard on things that they find meaningful. | |
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| From his teenage years in the 1940s, when he battled apartheid in his native South Africa, | |
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| Rather, think about the ways that Seymour’s ideas can be integrated into today’s discussions about educational strategies and policies. And think about what you might do to nurture the seeds that Seymour sowed. | |
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| a system could be lawful and | |
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| completely comprehensible without being rigidly deterministic. | |
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| Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. | |
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| It must refer to the genesis of knowledge. | |
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| Second, I remember that there was feeling, love, as well as understanding in my relationship with gears. | |
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| It is this double relationship—both abstract and sensory—that gives the gear the power to carry powerful mathematics into the mind. | |
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| I fell in love with the gears. | |
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| This is something that cannot be reduced to purely “cognitive” terms. | |
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| Something very personal happened, | |
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| What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate. Because it can take on a thousand forms and can serve a thousand functions, it can appeal to a thousand tastes. | |
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| computer presence could contribute to mental processes | |
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| It is about an end to the culture that makes science and technology alien to the vast majority of people. | |
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| Among these barriers the most visible are the physically brutal effects of deprivation and isolation. Other barriers are more political. | |
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| Most branches of the most sophisticated modern culture of Europe and the United States are so deeply “mathophobic” that many privileged children are as effectively (if more gently) kept from appropriating science as their own. | |
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| that cuts across the traditional lines separating humanities from sciences and knowledge of the self from both of these. | |
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| It is about whether personal computers and the cultures in which they are used will continue to be the creatures of “engineers” alone or whether we can construct intellectual environments in which people who today think of themselves as “humanists” will feel part of, not alienated from, the process of constructing computational cultures. | |
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| Thus, this book is about facing choices that are ultimately political. | |
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| It is hard to think about computers of the future without projecting onto them the properties and the limitations of those we think we know today. | |
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| Programming a computer means nothing more or less than communicating to it in a language that it and the human user can both “understand.” | |
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| And learning languages is one of the things children do best. Every normal child learns to talk. Why then should a child not learn to “talk” to a computer? | |
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| The first is that it is possible to design computers so that learning to communicate with them can be a natural process, more like learning French by living in France than like trying to learn it through the unnatural process of American foreign-language instruction in classrooms. | |
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| The computer can be a mathematics-speaking and an alphabetic-speaking entity. We are learning how to make computers with which children love to communicate. | |
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| The idea of “talking mathematics” to a computer can be generalized to a view of learning mathematics in “Mathland”—that is to say, in a context which is to learning mathematics what living in France is to learning French. | |
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| My conjecture is that much of what we now see as too “formal” or “too mathematical” will be learned just as easily when children grow up in the computer-rich world of the very near future. | |
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| children as builders of their own intellectual structures. | |
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| Difficulty with school math is often the first step of an invasive intellectual process that leads us all to define ourselves as bundles of aptitudes and ineptitudes, as being “mathematical” or “not mathematical,” “artistic” or “not artistic,” “musical” or “not musical,” “profound” or “superficial,” “intelligent” or “dumb.” Thus | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 283-284 | Added on Sunday, December 18, 2022 12:01:42 AM | |
| learning is transformed from the early child’s free exploration of the world to a chore beset by insecurities and self-imposed restrictions. | |
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| the word “education” tends to evoke “teaching,” | |
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| I believe that the computer presence will enable us to so modify the learning environment outside the classrooms that much if not all the knowledge schools | |
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| Indeed, the role I give to the computer is that of a carrier of cultural “germs” or “seeds” whose intellectual products will not need technological support once they take root in an actively growing mind. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 312-313 | Added on Sunday, December 18, 2022 12:03:30 AM | |
| My discussion differs from most arguments about “nature versus nurture” in two ways. I | |
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| You can’t think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something. | |
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| in particular this consequence of finding beauty in abstract things. | |
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| My goal has been the design of other objects that children can make theirs for themselves and in their own ways. | |
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| The Turtle is a computer-controlled cybernetic animal. | |
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| the child is learning how to exercise control over an exceptionally rich and sophisticated | |
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| the child is learning how to exercise control over an exceptionally rich and sophisticated “micro-world.” | |
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| an electronic sketchpad, a computer graphics display of the not-too-distant future. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 364-365 | Added on Sunday, December 18, 2022 12:10:06 AM | |
| a palette of colors could appear on the screen. You can choose a color by pointing at it with the wand. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 431-432 | Added on Sunday, December 18, 2022 12:46:27 AM | |
| say that intellectual structures are built by the learner rather than taught by a teacher does not mean that they are built from nothing. | |
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| our culture’s relative poverty in materials from which the apparently “more advanced” intellectual structures can be built. | |
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| the knowledge is acquired for a recognizable personal purpose. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 457-457 | Added on Sunday, December 18, 2022 12:48:12 AM | |
| many people never achieve fully formal thinking. | |
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| the computer can concretize (and personalize) the formal. | |
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| combinatorial thinking, where one has to reason in terms of the set of all possible states of a system, and self-referential thinking about thinking itself. | |
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| our children acquire an excellent intuitive sense of quantity. But our culture is relatively poor in models of systematic procedures. | |
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| powerful, concrete ways to think about problems involving systematicity, | |
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| they have a model of learning in which you have either “got it” or “got it wrong.” | |
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| when you learn to program a computer, you almost never get it right the first time. Learning to be a master programmer is learning to become highly skilled at isolating and correcting “bugs,” the parts that keep the program from working. | |
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| This potential influence of the computer on changing our notion of a black and white version of our successes and failures is an example of using the computer as an “object-to-think-with.” | |
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| I predict that long before the end of the century, people will buy children toys with as much computer power as the great IBM computers currently selling for millions of dollars. | |
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| The computer’s “holding power,” so feared by critics, becomes a useful educational tool. | |
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| The critic is afraid that children will adopt the computer as model and eventually come to “think mechanically” themselves. | |
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| the stereotype of a computer program that proceeds in a step-by-step, literal, mechanical fashion. | |
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| Even the simplest Turtle work can open new opportunities for sharpening one’s thinking about thinking: Programming the Turtle starts by making one reflect on how one does oneself what one would like the Turtle to do. | |
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| The bottom line for such changes is political. | |
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| What can happen is a technical question. | |
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| But what will happen is a political question, depending on social choices. | |
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| what tastes and ideologies will they impose on the growing computer culture? | |
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| my general thesis that what is good for professionals is good for children. | |
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| the many aspects of school whose effect, if not whose intention, is to “infantilize” the child. | |
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| The computer is not a culture unto itself, but it can serve to advance very different cultural and philosophical outlooks. | |
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| supporting children as they build their own intellectual structures with materials drawn from the surrounding culture. | |
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| educational intervention means changing the culture, planting new constructive elements in it, and eliminating noxious ones. | |
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| it becomes a practical proposition to influence the form of the languages they learn and the likelihood that their children will pick up these languages. | |
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| The social cost of change (for example, putting the most used keys together on the keyboard) mounted with the vested interest created by the fact that so many fingers now knew how | |
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| Although these justifications have no rational foundation, they illustrate a process, a social process, of myth construction that allows us to build a justification for primitivity into any system. | |
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| I think that we are well on the road to doing exactly the same thing with the computer. | |
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| The language used strongly colors the computer culture. | |
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| The computer revolution has scarcely begun but is already breeding its own conservatism. | |
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| a conservative social system appropriates and tries to neutralize a potentially revolutionary instrument. | |
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| Complex arguments are invented to justify features of BASIC that were originally included because the primitive technology demanded them or because alternatives were not well enough known at the time the language was designed. | |
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| Most teachers do not expect high performance from most students, especially in a domain of work that appears to be as “mathematical” | |
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| Most teachers do not expect high performance from most students, especially in a domain of work that appears to be as “mathematical” and “formal” as programming. | |
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| Thus, a particular subculture, one dominated by computer engineers, is influencing the world of education to favor those school students who are most like that subculture. | |
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| This inhibition of invention in turn influences the selection of people who get involved in education. | |
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| Conservatism in the world of education has become a self-perpetuating social phenomenon. | |
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| Our culture’s schizophrenic split between “humanities” and “science” supports their sense of security. | |
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| I have already suggested that the computer may serve as a force to break down the line between the “two cultures.” | |
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| They learn a balkanized image of human knowledge which they come to see as a patchwork of territories separated by impassable iron curtains. | |
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| because knowledge structures we take for granted have rendered much of that learning invisible. | |
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| These conservations are only part of a vast structure of “hidden” mathematical knowledge that children learn by themselves. | |
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| Here, too, it is not merely the “item” of knowledge that is missing, but the epistemological presupposition underlying the idea of “shortest” as a property of the path rather than of the action of traversing it. | |
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| Everything is set up for children to attribute their first unsuccessful or unpleasant learning experiences to their own disabilities. | |
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| Only rarely does some exceptional event lead people to reorganize their intellectual self-image in such a way as to open up new perspectives on what is learnable. | |
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| “good” pedagogy should take these poor ways of thinking as its starting point. | |
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| The results of these tests enter into the social construction of each child as a bundle of aptitudes. | |
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| As a result our children are forced to follow the very worst model for learning mathematics. | |
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| For most people, mathematics is taught and taken as medicine. | |
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| And, as is the case for most of us, resentment guaranteed failure. | |
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| In order to “teach” her computer to make strings of words that would look like English, she had to “teach” it to choose words of an appropriate class. What she learned about | |
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| The children can see perfectly well that the teacher does not like math any more than they do and that the reason for doing it is simply that it has been inscribed into the curriculum. | |
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| Before electronic calculators existed, it was a practical social necessity that many people be “programmed” to perform such operations as long division quickly and accurately. | |
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| Some of the historical reasons for school math had to do with what was learnable and teachable in the precomputer epoch. As | |
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| A living language is learned by speaking and does not need a teacher to verify and grade each sentence. A dead language requires constant “feedback” from a teacher. The activity known as “sums” performs this feedback function in school math. These absurd little repetitive exercises have only one merit: They are easy to grade. | |
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| First, there was the continuity principle: The mathematics must be continuous with well-established personal knowledge from which it can inherit a sense of warmth and value as well as “cognitive” competence. | |
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| power principle: It must empower the learner to perform personally meaningful projects that could not be done without | |
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| principle of cultural resonance: The topic must make sense in terms of a larger social context. I have spoken of Turtle geometry making sense to children. But it will not truly make sense to children unless it is accepted by adults too. | |
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| Two physically different entities can be mathematically the same (or “isomorphic”). | |
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| to develop insights into the way they move about in space. | |
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| And they learn to use the very powerful idea of “state.” | |
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| The triangle came out inside the square instead of on top of it! Typically in math class, a child’s reaction to a wrong answer is to try to forget it as fast as possible. | |
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| The house is better but still has a bug. With a little more playing Turtle this final bug is pinned down and fixed by doing a RIGHT 90 as the first step in the program. | |
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| For a student, drawing a Turtle circle is more than a “common sense” way of drawing circles. | |
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| Here we see a cultural syntonicity: The Turtle connects the idea of angle to navigation, activity firmly and positively rooted in the extraschool | |
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| (One of the minor contributions of the computer culture to mathematics is its habit of using mnemonic words instead of single letters as names for variables.) | |
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| message—a number that will be passed on to the “FORWARD man” who will pass it on to the Turtle. | |
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| In fact, in our “rational” culture, the notion that thinking impedes action, even that thinking impedes learning, is quite prevalent. It is our usual way of talking about learning to ride a bicycle: “Keep trying—one day you’ll just ‘get it’” is standard parental advice to children struggling with the two-wheeler. | |
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| some as image, and only the third category as symbols. | |
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| No knowledge is entirely reducible to words, and no knowledge is entirely ineffable. | |
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| schools treat “physical education”—as a nonintellectual subject. | |
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| learning a physical skill has much in common with building a scientific theory. | |
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| relating science to physical skills can do much more for learning science than providing what educators like to call a “motivation.” | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1466-1468 | Added on Sunday, December 18, 2022 10:23:54 AM | |
| The potency of symbols took a leap forward when Descartes realized how to use an algebraic language to talk about space, and a spatial language to talk about algebraic phenomena. | |
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| The use of programming concepts as a descriptive language facilitates debugging. | |
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| In both cases the description reflected a representation of the process in modular form, that is to say broken up into natural, functional units, and catching the bug was helped by containing it within as narrow a set of boundaries as possible. | |
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| when several bugs are present simultaneously. | |
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| Errors benefit us because they lead us to study what happened, to understand what went wrong, and, through | |
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| the possibility of activities, games, art, and so on that make activity in the microworlds matter. | |
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| The question raises fundamental problems, among them: What is physics? And what is the potential influence of computation on understanding it? | |
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| this knowledge seems to be acquired by adult physicists through a process of Piagetian learning, without, and often in spite of, deliberate classroom teaching. | |
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| the most destructive blocks to learning: the use of formal reasoning to put down intuitions. | |
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| He wants to know why his intuition gave him a wrong expectation. He needs to know how to work on his intuitions in order to change them. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2340-2341 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 1:07:47 AM | |
| When children who will not let a number into their head fail to learn arithmetic, the remedy must be developing a new relationship with numbers. | |
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| At the time of this incident he did not recognize procedures as entities, as things one could name, manipulate, or change. Thus, fixing his procedures is very far indeed from his awareness. | |
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| why don’t children learn a procedural approach from daily life? Everyone works with procedures in everyday life. Playing a game or giving directions to a lost motorist are exercises in procedural thinking. | |
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| In my view a salient feature of human intelligence is the ability to operate with many ways of knowing, often in parallel, so that something can be understood on many levels. | |
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| AI is concerned with extending the capacity of machines to perform functions that would be considered intelligent if performed by people. | |
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| to make a machine that can be instructed in natural language, it is necessary to probe deeply into the nature of language. | |
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| contrast between epistemological and psychological ways of understanding learning. In the psychological perspective, the focus is on the laws that govern the learner rather than on what is being learned. | |
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| of theoretical mathematicians. To make more concrete the idea of studying learning by focusing on the structure of what is learned, | |
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| Thus learning to ride does not mean learning to balance, it means learning not to unbalance, learning not to interfere. | |
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| Piaget observed that children develop coherent intellectual structures that seemed to correspond very closely to the Bourbaki mother structures. | |
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| For most people, nothing is more natural than that the most advanced ideas in mathematics should be inaccessible to children. | |
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| Working with computers can make it more apparent that children construct their own personal microworlds. | |
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| Intellectual structures that appear first in a child’s development are sometimes characteristic not of early science but of the most modern science. | |
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| subdiscipline only in modern times. Only when mathematics becomes sufficiently advanced is it able to discover its own origins. | |
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| Thus, the importance of studying the structure of knowledge is not just to better understand the knowledge itself, but to understand the person. | |
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| neither people nor knowledge—including mathematics—can be fully grasped separately from the other, | |
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| In reality our current understanding of how birds fly did not come through a study narrowly focused on birds and gained nothing at all from the study of feathers. | |
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| the same principle (e.g., Bernoulli’s law) applies to real as well as ideal fluids, and they apply whether the fluid flows over a feather or an aluminum wing. | |
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| Instead of seeking powerful deductive methods that would enable surprising conclusions to be drawn from general principles, the new approach assumes that people are able to think only because they can draw on larger pools of specific, particular knowledge. | |
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| make programs be intelligent by giving them such quantities of knowledge that the greater part of solving a problem becomes its retrieval from somewhere in the memory. | |
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| A new entity, a new agent comes into being. This is Ageom, which acts as the supervisor for Aheight and Awidth. In cases where Aheight and Awidth agree, Ageom passes on their message with great “authority.” | |
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| Dozens or hundreds are needed to account for the complexity of the real process. | |
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| their interactions are more like social interactions than like the operations of mathematical | |
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| But, if we can think of the agents as well-defined computational entities similar to the subprocedures VEE, LINE, and HEAD in the procedure MAN, | |
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| We have just seen a principle that may be fundamental both to human and artificial intelligence: the principle of epistemological modularity. | |
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| Perhaps the fact that I have spoken so negatively about the balkanization of our culture and so positively about the modularization of knowledge requires some clarification. | |
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| Educators sometimes hold up an ideal of knowledge as having the kind of coherence defined by formal logic. | |
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| Many children and college students who decide “I can never be a mathematician or a scientist” are reflecting a discrepancy between the way they are led to believe the mathematician must think and the way they know they do. | |
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| we don’t have to reorganize ourselves in order to use them. | |
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| Piaget sees his stages of cognitive development as invariable, and numerous cross-cultural investigations have seemed to confirm the validity of his belief. In society after society, children seem to develop cognitive | |
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| Contemporary culture provides relatively little opportunity for bricolage with the elements of systematic procedures of this | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2768-2770 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 4:01:39 AM | |
| I see no reason to doubt that this difference could account for a gap of five years or more between the ages at which conservation of number and combinatorial abilities are acquired. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2776-2778 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 4:02:03 AM | |
| But things may be different in the computer-rich cultures of the future. If computers and programming become a part of the daily life of children, the conservation-combinatorial gap will surely close and could conceivably be reversed: Children may learn to be systematic before they learn to be quantitative! | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2791-2791 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 4:02:49 AM | |
| am over fifty and yet the number of my postschool years has barely caught up with my preschool and school years. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2809-2810 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 4:03:32 AM | |
| There is a greater social cohesion, a sense of belonging to a group, and a sense of common purpose. Much of the teaching, although it takes place in a natural environment, is deliberate. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2814-2814 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 4:03:44 AM | |
| Learning is not separate from reality. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2817-2818 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 4:03:57 AM | |
| in them mathematics is a real activity that can be shared by novices and experts. The activity is so varied, so discovery-rich, that even in the first day of programming, the student may do something that is new and exciting to the teacher. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2828-2830 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 4:04:33 AM | |
| The LOGO environment is like the samba school also in the fact that the flow of ideas and even of instructions is not a one-way street. The environment is designed to foster richer and deeper interactions than are commonly seen in schools today in connection with anything mathematical. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2852-2854 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:16:08 PM | |
| Educational innovators must be aware that in order to be successful they must be sensitive to what is happening in the surrounding culture and use dynamic cultural trends as a medium to carry their educational interventions. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2867-2868 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:16:42 PM | |
| The computer brings it into the realm of the possible by providing mathematically rich activities which could, in principle, be truly engaging for novice and expert, young and old. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2875-2876 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:17:02 PM | |
| They will be manifestations of a social movement of people interested in personal computation, interested in their own children, and interested in education. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2883-2883 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:17:25 PM | |
| what kind of computer culture can grow in communities where there is not already a rich technophilic soil. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2886-2888 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:17:40 PM | |
| The obstacle to the growth of popular computer cultures is cultural, for example, the mismatch between the computer culture embedded in the machines of today and the cultures of the homes they will go into. And if the problem is cultural the remedy must be cultural. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2898-2899 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:18:09 PM | |
| By creating an intellectual environment in which the emphasis is on process, we give people with different skills and interests something to talk about. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2907-2908 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:18:37 PM | |
| Thus, the whole process involves a dialectical interaction between new technologies and new ways of doing physics. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2923-2924 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:19:24 PM | |
| The direction of these changes was so synergistic with the new ski techniques that many ski instructors and ski writers attributed the change in skiing to the technology. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2934-2935 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:19:53 PM | |
| The technology itself will not draw us forward in any direction I can believe in either educationally or socially. The | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2937-2937 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:20:01 PM | |
| But the revolution I envision is of ideas, not of technology. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2942-2942 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:20:13 PM | |
| The computer will carry ideas into a world larger than the research centers where they have incubated up to now. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2952-2953 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:20:50 PM | |
| The Turtle environments gave us examples of “artificial” (that is, deliberately invented) Piagetian material. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2963-2965 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:21:24 PM | |
| The fact that in the past there was no role for such people has been cast into social and institutional concrete; now there is a role but there is no place for them. In current professional definitions | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2963-2964 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:21:28 PM | |
| The fact that in the past there was no role for such people has been cast into social and institutional concrete; now there is a role but there is no place for them. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2975-2976 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:21:59 PM | |
| It seems to be nobody’s business to think in a fundamental way about science in relation to the way people think and learn | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2987-2988 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:22:30 PM | |
| Similarly, a new world of personal computing is about to come into being, and its history will be inseparable from the story of the people who will make | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3005-3006 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:23:15 PM | |
| Poincare’s position is doubly interesting because in some ways he softens, and in some ways sharpens, these lines. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3020-3022 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:24:04 PM | |
| Certainly the widely practiced theories of the psychology of mathematical development (such as Piaget’s) totally ignore the aesthetic, or even the intuitive, and concentrate on structural analysis of the logical facet of mathematical thought. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3025-3026 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:24:23 PM | |
| If Poincaré is right about aesthetics, it becomes only too easy to see how the apparent rareness of mathematical talent could be explained | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3035-3037 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:25:58 PM | |
| The major obstacle to doing so is a projection of mathematics which greatly exaggerates its logical face, much as the Mercator projection of the globe exaggerates the polar regions so that on the map northern Greenland becomes more imposing than equatorial Brazil. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3039-3040 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:26:06 PM | |
| mathematical pleasure, and even mathematical intuition will be treated almost interchangeably insofar as they are representatives of the extralogical. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3070-3071 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:28:24 PM | |
| Mathematical work does not proceed along the narrow logical path of truth to truth to truth, but bravely or gropingly follows deviations through the surrounding marshland of propositions which are neither simply and wholly true nor simply and wholly false. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3085-3086 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:30:32 PM | |
| the problem has been turned over to a very active unconscious which relentlessly begins to combine the elements supplied to it by the first, conscious state of the work. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3090-3091 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:30:44 PM | |
| How does the unconscious mind know what to pass back to the conscious mind? It is here where Poincaré sees the role of the aesthetic. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3093-3093 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:30:51 PM | |
| But the ideas passed up do always have the stamp of mathematical beauty. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3095-3095 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:31:01 PM | |
| observe that the model postulates a third agent in addition to the conscious and unconscious minds. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3105-3107 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:31:44 PM | |
| The process does differ from Poincaré’s description in that it remains on the conscious level. This could be reconciled with Poincaré’s theory in many ways: One might argue that the number of combinatorial actions needed to generate the acceptable result is too small to require passing the problem to the unconscious level, | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3130-3131 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:33:08 PM | |
| Pleasure is, of course, often experienced in mathematical work, as if one were rewarding oneself when one achieves a desired goal after arduous struggle. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3134-3135 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:33:18 PM | |
| Some subjects explicitly set themselves the goal: “Get rid of the square root.” | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3181-3181 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:36:02 PM | |
| “aha-single-flash-insight versus step-by-step reasoning.” | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3210-3210 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:37:27 PM | |
| there is something very powerful in the way one is captured and carried inexorably through the serial process. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3226-3227 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:38:09 PM | |
| The narrator explains: “I had had the nerve to propose repair of his new eighteen-hundred-dollar BMW, the pride of a half-century of German mechanical finesse, with a piece of old beer can!” | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3230-3231 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:38:23 PM | |
| The friendship is saved only by a tacit agreement never again to discuss maintenance and repair of the motorcycles | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3240-3241 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:38:46 PM | |
| the motorcycle is continuous with the world not only of beer cans but more generally the world of metals (taken as substance). | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3253-3254 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:39:25 PM | |
| If styles of involvement with motorcycle maintenance are so intricately interwoven with our psychological and social identities, one would scarcely expect this to be less true about the varieties of involvements of individuals with mathematics. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3264-3265 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:40:01 PM | |
| The first is the development of an ego-syntonic mathematics, indeed, of a “body-syntonic” mathematics; | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3278-3279 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:40:33 PM | |
| In the above paragraph it sounds as though ego-syntonic mathematics was recently invented. This is certainly not the case and, indeed, would contradict the point made repeatedly in this essay that the mathematics of the mathematician is profoundly personal. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3280-3281 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:40:44 PM | |
| Most people feel that they have no “personal” involvement with mathematics, yet as children they constructed it for themselves. Jean Piaget’s work on genetic | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3290-3291 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:41:07 PM | |
| Warren McCulloch’s epigrammatic assertion that neither man nor mathematics can be fully grasped separately from the other. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3321-3321 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:41:55 PM | |
| It set out to grow a new “education culture” in an environment permeated with a particular form of “computer culture.” | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3329-3330 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:42:21 PM | |
| It can also be the material from which to fashion a powerful and personal vision of the world. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3333-3334 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:42:35 PM | |
| decision that significant research could not be based on the primitive computers that were then becoming available in schools, resource centers, and education research laboratories. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3354-3354 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:43:12 PM | |
| programming languages as heavily invested with epistemological and aesthetic commitments. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3361-3363 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:43:31 PM | |
| Examples of things I have learned in this spirit include chapters of science (like thermodynamics), reading Chinese characters, flying airplanes, cooking in various cuisines, performing circus arts such as juggling, and even two bouts of living for several weeks with distorting spectacles | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3365-3365 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:43:40 PM | |
| using one’s self as a source of insight into psychological processes | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3382-3383 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 9:44:04 PM | |
| It consists of doing what is really original research in mathematics or science but in directions chosen because they lead to more comprehensible or more learnable forms of knowledge | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 69-69 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 10:20:54 PM | |
| "What have you done today that was altruistic, creative, or educational?" | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 78-78 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 10:21:21 PM | |
| (Once, at a convention, a guy had leaned over Dad's shoulder and offered fifty dollars for a page of his doodles.) | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 81-84 | Added on Monday, December 19, 2022 10:21:35 PM | |
| But Dad had also come up with a technique for how you should look at a painting, based on "color displacements" (he had been a psychologist up at Harvard and MIT). He claimed that if you covered one eye with your hand and stood back about five feet, and then suddenly dropped your hand so you could look at the picture with both eyes, the flat surface would seem to leap into three dimensions. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 114-116 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:13:23 AM | |
| for most people the word computer still meant a big, mysterious mainframe sitting off in a back room somewhere, an ominous, implacable, pitiless machine of the sort that served only large institutions—them—and | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 124-124 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:13:53 AM | |
| Project MAC, the world's first large-scale experiment in personal computing. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 128-130 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:14:13 AM | |
| Project MAC would not only introduce hundreds of people to the joys of interactive computing but also evolve into the world's first on-line community, complete with on-line bulletin boards, E-mail, a "freeware" exchange—and hackers. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 135-138 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:14:43 AM | |
| Douglas Engelbart had been a voice in the wilderness until then; his own bosses at SRI International, in what would soon become Silicon Valley, thought he was an absolute flake. But once Tracy's father had given him his first real funding—and vigorously defended him to his higher-ups—Engelbart, with his group, would go on to invent the mouse, on-screen windows, hypertext, full-screen word processing, and a host of other innovations. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 142-144 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:15:05 AM | |
| Dad's "symbiosis" vision into the form we are still using more than three decades later: a stand-alone personal computer equipped with a graphics display screen and a mouse. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 171-171 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:20:28 AM | |
| young men on tricycles carried information to and fro through the mightiest bureaucracy in the world. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 212-213 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:25:06 AM | |
| putting the pieces together, covering the wings and body with cellophane, painting it all just so, and doubtless getting a little high on airplane | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 212-213 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:25:09 AM | |
| putting the pieces together, covering the wings and body with cellophane, painting it all just so, and doubtless getting a little high on airplane glue. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 220-221 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:25:32 AM | |
| he refused to pay more than fifty dollars for a car; whatever shape it was in, he could fix it up and make it go. (Faced with the ravages of inflation, he was eventually forced to raise his limit to $150.) | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 228-229 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:25:59 AM | |
| Even as an adult, Lick would be known as a remarkably courteous and considerate man who rarely raised his voice in anger, who nearly always wore a coat and tie even at home, and who found it almost physically | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 228-229 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:26:04 AM | |
| Even as an adult, Lick would be known as a remarkably courteous and considerate man who rarely raised his voice in anger, who nearly always wore a coat and tie even at home, and who found it almost physically impossible to remain seated when a woman entered the room | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 236-236 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:26:31 AM | |
| Always be extremely careful in your work—and in your proclamations of faith. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 238-239 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:26:44 AM | |
| Underlying his meticulous craftsmanship and insatiable curiosity was a complete lack of patience for sloppy work, easy | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 238-239 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:26:51 AM | |
| Underlying his meticulous craftsmanship and insatiable curiosity was a complete lack of patience for sloppy work, easy | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 238-239 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:26:57 AM | |
| Underlying his meticulous craftsmanship and insatiable curiosity was a complete lack of patience for sloppy work, easy | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 238-239 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:27:03 AM | |
| Underlying his meticulous craftsmanship and insatiable curiosity was a complete lack of patience for sloppy work, easy solutions, or glib answers. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 260-261 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:28:23 AM | |
| Today it would be known as neuroscience: the precise, detailed study of the brain and how it functions. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 260-261 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:28:26 AM | |
| What he had stumbled across was "physiological" psychology, a line of research that was then in the midst of a remarkable period of ferment. Today it would be known as neuroscience: the precise, detailed study of the brain and how it functions. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 274-275 | Added on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 7:29:02 AM | |
| Through electroencephalography, or EEG, they could eavesdrop on electrical activity in the brain by taking precise readings from detectors placed around the outside of the head. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 347-347 | Added on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 4:38:43 AM | |
| "When the clouds gathered and thunder rolled forth, he was as little concerned as Nature for who might be caught in the storm." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 483-484 | Added on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 4:50:05 AM | |
| He considered mathematical notation and language to be necessary evils at best—things that tended to get in the way of the real ideas . | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 488-490 | Added on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 4:50:22 AM | |
| And then there was his phenomenal absentmindedness. Legend has it that he was once wandering along a hallway, distractedly running his finger along one wall, when he encountered the open doorway of a classroom. Lost in thought, he followed his finger around the doorjamb, around all four sides of the room, and out the door again without ever once realizing that a lecture was in progress. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 517-518 | Added on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 4:53:08 AM | |
| Jerry Wiesner remembered Lick as the tall fellow who was always in the thick of those arguments, Coke bottle in hand, having a grand time. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 653-653 | Added on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 6:58:06 AM | |
| Today we know it as hypertext. And that vast, hyperlinked web of knowledge is called the World Wide Web. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 694-695 | Added on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 11:10:44 AM | |
| modern digital computer is actually a combination of at least half a dozen separate inventions, most of which involved not just another gadget but a shift in the way people thought about computing. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 708-710 | Added on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 11:11:36 AM | |
| Doggedly, and without success, the Best Apparatus Man in America kept on trying to come up with a workable analog design for his Memex until his death, in 1974. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 799-800 | Added on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 11:17:29 AM | |
| Teletype machines for entering problems and printing out the answers, | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1048-1048 | Added on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 11:33:18 AM | |
| "The fast memory was not cheap, and the cheap memory was not fast," Mauchly noted wryly. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1225-1227 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:05:33 AM | |
| I had become engaged in the study of a mechanico-electrical system which was designed to usurp a specifically human function—in the first case, the execution of a complicated pattern of computation, and in the second, the forecasting of the future," | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1238-1239 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:06:11 AM | |
| Furthermore, they realized, it had that capacity for a very deep reason: feedback. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1270-1271 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:08:45 AM | |
| if it was valid to think of the nervous system in engineering terms, then it was just as valid to think of machines in biological terms. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1273-1274 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:08:57 AM | |
| Through feedback, said Wiener, Bigelow, and Rosenblueth, a mechanism could embody purpose. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1279-1279 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:10:10 AM | |
| Rather, purpose in the thermostat is a property of the system as a whole and how its components are organized. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1281-1282 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:10:20 AM | |
| Obviously, the myriad feedback mechanisms that govern the brain are far more complex than any thermostat. But at base, their operation is the same. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1308-1309 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:11:47 AM | |
| "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity," | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1312-1313 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:13:20 AM | |
| providing one in the biological world, the equivalence result suggested a unified theory of thought that broke down barriers between the physical and biological worlds." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1311-1313 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:13:28 AM | |
| "With the Turing machines providing an abstract characterization of thinking in the machine world and McCulloch and Pitts's neuron nets providing one in the biological world, the equivalence result suggested a unified theory of thought that broke down barriers between the physical and biological worlds." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1344-1345 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:20:21 AM | |
| von Neumann could draw his own circuit designs using McCulloch and Pitts's neuralnet notation, which would eventually evolve into the standard circuit notation used by computer engineers today. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1346-1347 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:20:29 AM | |
| he referred to them as "organs" and went out of his way to make provocative comparisons with biological functions. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1359-1360 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:22:36 AM | |
| Finally, said von Neumann, the central control unit would be the heart of the computer, the part that decided what to do next. (Today this is usually known as the central processing unit, or CPU.) | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1376-1377 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:23:45 AM | |
| To this day, the vast majority of computers in the world—including essentially all personal computers—are still based on the serial, step-by-step "von Neumann" architecture. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1396-1397 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:25:45 AM | |
| The act of computation thus became an abstract process that we now know as software, a series of commands encoded in a string of binary 1s and 0s and stored in the computer's memory. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1454-1455 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:33:15 AM | |
| In any case, the stored-program concept articulated in von Neumann's 101-page "First Draft" marked the beginning of the last great transition in the development of computers, a transition that is still going on today. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1454-1456 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 12:33:19 AM | |
| In any case, the stored-program concept articulated in von Neumann's 101-page "First Draft" marked the beginning of the last great transition in the development of computers, a transition that is still going on today. It was the shift in focus from structure to behavior, from how computers were made to what they could do. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1573-1574 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 1:00:16 AM | |
| Sun. And that, in the status-conscious world of science, meant that psychologists could at last hold their heads high: they, too, were practicing a "hard" science. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1573-1574 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 1:00:19 AM | |
| Sun. And that, in the status-conscious world of science, meant that psychologists could at last hold their heads high: they, too, were practicing a "hard" science. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1735-1736 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 1:09:22 AM | |
| the information content of a message was just the number of binary 1s and 0s required to encode it. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1863-1863 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 1:19:31 AM | |
| gubernator turned out to be a corruption of the Greek word for "steersman," kybernetes. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1971-1972 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:17:22 AM | |
| in 1953, when James Watson and Francis Crick finally determined the molecular structure of DNA, it would fulfill von Neumann's two requirements exactly. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1984-1985 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:19:17 AM | |
| after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no one could pretend any longer that science was apolitical. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 1985-1987 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:19:31 AM | |
| Von Neumann, for his part, was a figure of the sort that many in the post-Vietnam generation find all but incomprehensible: a genuinely kind, outgoing, and supremely rational man who was also a grimly determined Cold Warrior. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2012-2013 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:20:57 AM | |
| when war becomes a form of mutual suicide, you don't want to win the game. You want to get out of the game. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2031-2032 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:39:52 AM | |
| Indeed, he argued that for all the danger the technology posed, its real message was one of hope, for "a new interpretation of man, of man's knowledge of the universe, and of society." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2036-2037 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:40:08 AM | |
| Instead, cybernetics held out a vision of humans as neither gods nor clay but rather "machines" of the new kind, embodying | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2036-2040 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:40:15 AM | |
| Instead, cybernetics held out a vision of humans as neither gods nor clay but rather "machines" of the new kind, embodying purpose—and thus, autonomy. No, we were not the absolute masters of our universe; we lived in a world that was complex, confusing, and largely uncontrollable. But neither were we helpless. We were embedded in our world, in constant communication with our environment and one another. We had the power to act, to observe, to learn from our mistakes, and to grow. "From the point of view of | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2036-2039 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:40:20 AM | |
| Instead, cybernetics held out a vision of humans as neither gods nor clay but rather "machines" of the new kind, embodying purpose—and thus, autonomy. No, we were not the absolute masters of our universe; we lived in a world that was complex, confusing, and largely uncontrollable. But neither were we helpless. We were embedded in our world, in constant communication with our environment and one another. We had the power to act, to observe, to learn from our mistakes, and to grow. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2081-2082 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:42:41 AM | |
| "Seldom do more than a few of nature's secrets give way at one time." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2124-2125 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:45:12 AM | |
| was the one central concept that unified communication, computation, and control and made them all seem like different facets of one underlying reality. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2124-2125 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:45:15 AM | |
| was the one central concept that unified communication, computation, and control and made them all seem like different facets of one underlying reality. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2124-2125 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 8:45:18 AM | |
| It was the one central concept that unified communication, computation, and control and made them all seem like different facets of one underlying reality. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2177-2178 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 10:26:00 AM | |
| To anyone who has had the pleasure of close interaction with a good, fast, responsive analog simulation, a mathematical model consisting of mere pencil marks on paper is likely to seem a static, lifeless thing." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2177-2178 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 10:26:05 AM | |
| To anyone who has had the pleasure of close interaction with a good, fast, responsive analog simulation, a mathematical model consisting of mere pencil marks on paper is likely to seem a static, lifeless thing." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2307-2309 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 10:41:07 AM | |
| So somehow Project Lincoln would have to make all of this computerized hardware work together with human beings as a system. And to accomplish that, the project leaders realized, they would have to recruit a team of top-rank psychologists who thoroughly understood human-machine interactions. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2397-2397 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 10:18:59 PM | |
| Early on, he started calling this the nightly core dump. " | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2395-2397 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 10:19:04 PM | |
| But then he would go back to work at the lab and wouldn't come home until about eleven or so. That's when we'd tell each other about our day and I'd learn what was uppermost on his mind. Early on, he started calling this the nightly core dump. " | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2440-2440 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 10:24:45 PM | |
| He loved to apply information and new ideas. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2440-2441 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 10:24:54 PM | |
| together. He loved to apply information and new ideas. So any area of science was interesting to him; he pulled in ideas | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2440-2440 | Added on Friday, December 23, 2022 10:24:57 PM | |
| putting things together. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2849-2850 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 12:47:36 AM | |
| The clear implication was that perception didn't just happen, as the behaviorists would have it. Perception was a real physical process with capacities and limits, in precisely the same way a telephone line had limits. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2891-2892 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 1:06:21 AM | |
| In truth, language had always been the ultimate hurdle for behaviorism. How could you avoid talking about "mental states" such as ideas, images, feelings, and intentions when the whole point of language was to communicate those states? The behaviorist | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2891-2893 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 1:06:28 AM | |
| In truth, language had always been the ultimate hurdle for behaviorism. How could you avoid talking about "mental states" such as ideas, images, feelings, and intentions when the whole point of language was to communicate those states? The behaviorist answer—naturally—was that such apparent mental states were illusory. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 2924-2925 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 1:08:20 AM | |
| Today, of course, Chomsky's proof that computational machines form a hierarchy is considered a major refinement of Turing's original insight, and one of the foundation stones of modern computer science. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3075-3076 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 3:32:16 AM | |
| Again, the magic was not in the individual neurons but in their organization—how they turned one another on and off through a web of interconnections. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3219-3221 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 6:23:09 AM | |
| "The only surviving computing system paradigm seen by MIT students and faculty was that of a very large International Business Machine in a tightly sealed Computation Center: the computer not as tool, but as demigod. Although we were not happy about giving up the TX-0, it was clear that | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3219-3221 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 6:23:13 AM | |
| "The only surviving computing system paradigm seen by MIT students and faculty was that of a very large International Business Machine in a tightly sealed Computation Center: the computer not as tool, but as demigod. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3253-3255 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 6:25:35 AM | |
| Since that establishment had no liquor license at the time, Lick helped the conversation along by handing Mrs. Chen a brown bag as they came in and asking her for "the usual tea"). | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3293-3295 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 6:29:31 AM | |
| "The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3565-3565 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 8:34:13 AM | |
| Intelligent behavior resided in the hardware, went the cybernetic line. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3575-3575 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 8:35:38 AM | |
| But McCarthy maintains that he wasn't trying to be provocative. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3575-3575 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 8:35:42 AM | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 3634-3635 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 8:39:32 AM | |
| "Time-sharing to me was one of these ideas that seemed quite inevitable," he says. "When I was first learning about computers, I [thought] that even if [time-sharing] wasn't the way it was already done, surely it must be what everybody had in mind to do." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4049-4051 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 9:21:43 AM | |
| "information is a dynamic, living thing, not properly to be confined (though we have long been forced to confine it thus) within the passive pages of a printed document. As soon as information is freed from documental bounds and allowed to take on the form of process, the complexity (as distinguished from the mere amount) of knowledge makes itself evident." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4074-4076 | Added on Saturday, December 24, 2022 11:44:25 PM | |
| "The problem is no longer to design a pulley or a gear. It is to find a mission worthy of a million men, to plan a flow of metal and ideas and of flexibility and change. . . . | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4856-4859 | Added on Sunday, December 25, 2022 9:06:43 AM | |
| "There would be all kinds of committees, and inquiries, and peer review, and red tape. It would take forever. But we did it all within one week: Thursday to Thursday. Because all the parties concerned just decided that yes, we were going to do this." Alas, no one can escape red tape quite that easily. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 4883-4884 | Added on Sunday, December 25, 2022 9:09:26 AM | |
| "The evolving system will be, simultaneously, the main research tool and the primary object of experimentation, as well as the tangible product of the development effort." | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 5023-5025 | Added on Sunday, December 25, 2022 9:55:36 PM | |
| "All sorts of human things happened, ranging from people destroying keyboards out of frustration, to friendship being born out of using somebody else's program, [to] people communicating through the system and then meeting by accident and saying, 'Oh, that's | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 5023-5025 | Added on Sunday, December 25, 2022 9:55:39 PM | |
| "All sorts of human things happened, ranging from people destroying keyboards out of frustration, to friendship being born out of using somebody else's program, [to] people communicating through the system and then meeting by accident and saying, 'Oh, that's you.' | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 5220-5222 | Added on Sunday, December 25, 2022 10:35:49 PM | |
| Nonetheless, with Corbató's attempt to impose a modicum of social order on cyberspace, Project MAC had crossed over from technology into politics, thereby sparking a debate on freedom versus responsibility that was strikingly similar to the one that would roil the Internet in the 1990s. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6217-6217 | Added on Monday, December 26, 2022 8:36:38 AM | |
| the era was like a giant primal scream, the sound of a nation tearing itself apart. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6218-6219 | Added on Monday, December 26, 2022 8:36:48 AM | |
| ARPA was an arm of the Department of Defense, after all, in a period when academics had begun to use the word Pentagon as an expletive. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6232-6234 | Added on Monday, December 26, 2022 8:37:42 AM | |
| "ARPA" didn't mean "Pentagon." It was more like a magic word that opened a door into the Land of Faerie itself, a magical realm full of machines that could do anything their imaginations could contrive, while providing a refuge from the all-too-real tumult around them. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6676-6677 | Added on Monday, December 26, 2022 10:01:03 AM | |
| It was clear we needed to support remote login for interactive use—later known as Telnet—and | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6676-6677 | Added on Monday, December 26, 2022 10:01:06 AM | |
| It was clear we needed to support remote login for interactive use—later known as Telnet—and | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6676-6676 | Added on Monday, December 26, 2022 10:01:11 AM | |
| It was clear we needed to support remote | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6676-6677 | Added on Monday, December 26, 2022 10:01:15 AM | |
| It was clear we needed to support remote login for interactive use—later | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 6676-6677 | Added on Monday, December 26, 2022 10:01:20 AM | |
| It was clear we needed to support remote login for interactive use—later known as Telnet—and we needed to move files from machine to machine [later known as File Transfer Protocol, or FTP]. | |
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| - Your Highlight on Location 8065-8068 | Added on Tuesday, December 27, 2022 3:00:44 AM | |
| "There was this thread of ideas that led from Vannevar Bush through J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Alan Kay—a thread in the Ascent of Man. It was like the Holy Grail. We would rationalize our mission according to what Xerox needed, and so on. But whenever we could phrase an idea so that it fell on this path, then suddenly everybody's eyes would light up, and you'd hit this resonance frequency." | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 8088-8093 | Added on Tuesday, December 27, 2022 3:02:19 AM | |
| the decision to focus on graphics displays undermined the most fundamental premise of time-sharing—namely, that computers are fast and humans are slow. As he would express it in a later account, "[This] relationship holds only when the people are required to play on the machine's terms, seeing information presented slowly and inconveniently, with only the clumsiest control over its form or content. When the machine is required to play the game on the human's terms, presenting a pageful of attractively (or even legibly) formatted text, graphs, or pictures in the fraction of a second in which the human can pick out a significant pattern, it is the other way around: People are fast, and machines are slow." | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 7309-7314 | Added on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 2:04:35 AM | |
| At one point they were clustered around looking at the screen as I typed, and the damn thing crashed. The only time the Arpanet crashed in the whole three days of that meeting was right then. "Well, I sat there for a moment like you always do, hoping that something would actually work. But it never does. So I looked up at the guys in the pinstripes, and I found them all smiling. They were happy that it crashed. And it came alive for me in that moment: they were hostile. In fact, from that moment forward I carried a grudge against guys in pinstripes. I did eventually learn to wear pinstripes myself—but I still carry that grudge." | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 9715-9716 | Added on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 3:41:49 AM | |
| In short, the mass market would have to give the public something much closer to the system that had been created a decade before at Xerox PARC. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 9888-9889 | Added on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 4:27:29 AM | |
| the applications were fixed, always loaded, and, through the magic of object-oriented programming, automatically associated with data files; | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 9888-9890 | Added on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 4:27:38 AM | |
| the applications were fixed, always loaded, and, through the magic of object-oriented programming, automatically associated with data files; in principle, at least, users could focus on what they were doing without having to know anything about such concepts as operating systems, applications, or even software. | |
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| The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (M. Mitchell Waldrop) | |
| - Your Highlight on Location 10109-10109 | Added on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 5:09:07 AM | |
| Burmaster, who had been watching the proceedings | |
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