Thursday, July 21, 2011

All a man needs in this life

All a man needs in this life is someone to love. If you can't give him that, give him something to hope for. If you can't give him that... give him something to do.

warning

Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler.

Every evening I died, and every evening I was born again, resurrected.

Every evening I died, and every evening I was born again, resurrected.

free to do anything

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

First day

Today is the first day of the rest of your life"? Well, that's true of every day but one - the day you die

Friday, July 01, 2011

How to Solve it by G.Polya

  1. UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM
    • First. You have to understand the problem.
    • What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition?
    • Is it possible to satisfy the condition? Is the condition sufficient to determine the unknown? Or is it insufficient? Or redundant? Or contradictory?
    • Draw a figure. Introduce suitable notation.
    • Separate the various parts of the condition. Can you write them down?
  2. DEVISING A PLAN
    • Second. Find the connection between the data and the unknown. You may be obliged to consider auxiliary problems if an immediate connection cannot be found. You should obtain eventually a plan of the solution.
    • Have you seen it before? Or have you seen the same problem in a slightly different form?
    • Do you know a related problem? Do you know a theorem that could be useful?
    • Look at the unknown! And try to think of a familiar problem having the same or a similar unknown.
    • Here is a problem related to yours and solved before. Could you use it? Could you use its result? Could you use its method? Should you introduce some auxiliary element in order to make its use possible?
    • Could you restate the problem? Could you restate it still differently? Go back to definitions.
    • If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem. Could you imagine a more accessible related problem? A more general problem? A more special problem? An analogous problem? Could you solve a part of the problem? Keep only a part of the condition, drop the other part; how far is the unknown then determined, how can it vary? Could you derive something useful from the data? Could you think of other data appropriate to determine the unknown? Could you change the unknown or data, or both if necessary, so that the new unknown and the new data are nearer to each other?
    • Did you use all the data? Did you use the whole condition? Have you taken into account all essential notions involved in the problem?
  3. CARRYING OUT THE PLAN
    • Third. Carry out your plan.
    • Carrying out your plan of the solution, check each step. Can you see clearly that the step is correct? Can you prove that it is correct?
  4. Looking Back
    • Fourth. Examine the solution obtained.
    • Can you check the result? Can you check the argument?
    • Can you derive the solution differently? Can you see it at a glance?
    • Can you use the result, or the method, for some other problem?

Take bread

Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter-pablo neruda