"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."
— Indira Gandhi (via kari-shma)
(via iindia)
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
“The Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built on egalitarian principles and because thousands of individuals, universities and companies have worked, both independently and together as part of the World Wide Web Consortium, to expand its capabilities based on those principles.
The Web as we know it, however, is being threatened in different ways. Some of its most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles. Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web. Wireless Internet providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals. Governments—totalitarian and democratic alike—are monitoring people’s online habits, endangering important human rights.
If we, the Web’s users, allow these and other trends to proceed unchecked, the Web could be broken into fragmented islands. We could lose the freedom to connect with whichever Web sites we want. The ill effects could extend to smartphones and pads, which are also portals to the extensive information that the Web provides.
Why should you care? Because the Web is yours. It is a public resource on which you, your business, your community and your government depend. The Web is also vital to democracy, a communications channel that makes possible a continuous worldwide conversation. The Web is now more critical to free speech than any other medium. It brings principles established in the U.S. Constitution, the British Magna Carta and other important documents into the network age: freedom from being snooped on, filtered, censored and disconnected.”
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
— Einstein
(Source: bigthink.com, via willw2)
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein (via mizzchelle: cobrashark: sherex: flickflickflicker: cancerninja: think4yourself)
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
"One of the paradoxes of leadership is simply this: only the leader who is ready to step down has a real chance of success."
— Gerald M. Weinberg (in: The Psychology of Computer Programming)
"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt (via iamchrislewis)
"Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong."
— Ted Nelson’s 4 Maxims
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
— Marcus Aurelius (via littlemiss)
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Enumerations of domain concepts— and of relationships among the concepts— are referred to as domain ontologies. An ontology provides a domain of discourse that is understandable by both developers and computers, and that can be used to build knowledge bases containing detailed descriptions of particular application areas.
Ontologies represent convenient ways of characterizing a set of concepts and relationships in an application area. They do not, and cannot, capture absolute Platonic truths about what might exist in the world. The merits of a particular ontology can be measured only in terms of how well that ontology supports development of the application programs for which it was designed, and of how easy it is for developers to reuse that ontology to build new applications.
Just as a schema provides the organizing framework for a database, an ontology provides the framework for a domain knowledge base. Although specific ontologies rarely are reusable in toto from one application to the next, they often provide considerable guidance when developers wish to create new systems in the same domain.
"— Mark A. Musen (Ontology -Oriented Design and Programming)
