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关于生命意义的酒后鼓噪

评论: The Selfish Gene

我其实是断断续续读过些别的进化论、基因和进化心理学的流行读物以后才看了这本经典的。虽然悬念少些，但经典就是经典，每页都非常值得。基因和进化论放在一起，完全可以诠释生命的来龙去脉。这是一个大体上自洽的体系，虽然很多细节还可以不断完善。Dawkins其实说，只要是碰巧的一些分子组合有自我复制能力，就可以...(33回应)

金融风暴是怎么来的，及怎样得益于生活中的意外

评论: The Black Swan

这本书提前预见并解释了现在金融风暴。作者实践他自己的理论，在华尔街发了小财，然后定下心来周游全世界的咖啡馆，慢慢写下这本书。用他自己的话概括，this is a "fuck you" book。智力上有些冲击力，因为作者的意图在于挑战很多“常识”。核心的线索是，金融风暴这种”小概率事件“其实出现得比专家们预见的要频繁...(24回应)

非Geek慎入

评论: Daemon

先声明一下，我想给的评价是三星半：你是技术人的话，四星。你不是的话，三星。读这本书是因为不慎在同事桌子上看到，然后瞄了一眼情节梗概。之后两天时间里这个梗概就一直在脑子里转。终于扛不住了，威逼利诱插队拿到了手里。所以梗概是这本书最精彩的部分：一个网游巨鳄兼顶尖黑客，智商220的家伙得脑癌挂了。...(15回应)

永玉寓言

评论: 芥末居杂记

豆瓣向我推荐的《芥末居杂记》，买来竟然一直放着。今日拿来翻翻，大笑不已，微笑连连。黄永玉，多么有趣的老头。书中共一百零七则寓言，一页文字配一页永玉水墨自画。随手放几个上来：一三：群鸟人散步于林中空地，见群鸟争相扑跌，羽毛零落，不知究竟。一闲鸟告之曰：“无它，笼中刚出，有气耳！...(17回应)

阿北的笔记 · · · ( 8篇 )

The City Shaped (4)

Spiro Kostof / Bulfinch / 1993-05-04 / USD 35.00

第64页

without the force of tradition and a consolidated social agenda, unsupervised city-making will succumb to disorder. (6回应)
第53页

since it is often the case with regular plans like grids that the building activity within each block is of a great diversity while the total pattern remains unaffected.
第38页

Cities come in clusters. A town never exists unaccompanied by other towns. "The town only exists as a town in relation to a form of life lower than its own... It has to dominate an empire, howeve... (1回应)

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan (4)

Michael Sorkin / Reaktion Books / 2009-06-30 / USD 27.00

第146页

As the enterprise of the city is increasingly transformed into the production of high-end lifestyles, citizens are forced ever deeper inside the system in order to participate in public life, which ce... (3回应)
第130页

The good city is always a balancing act between the fluidity of association and stability of elective affinities. movement from public to private space always entails various mediating elements, ... (1回应)
第78页

Where government retreats from its role as equalizer, form its special obligation to the neediest, and acts in a way that enhances inequality, it creates yet another form of preferential zoning. In... (2回应)