http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2007/08/13/some-great-quotes-collected-by-tim-oreilly/ Startups, Entrepreneurs, and Consultants Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:19:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2007/08/13/some-great-quotes-collected-by-tim-oreilly/#comment-56537 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:00:33 +0000 http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2007/08/13/some-great-quotes-collected-by-tim-oreilly/#comment-56537 [...] My challenge is moving beyond my mental map of existing computing paradigms. I blogged last August about Robert Pirsig’s afterword to the 10th anniversay edition of Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance where he describes the Ancient Greek perception of time. Time carries you on the back of an oxcart, facing the road you have already travelled: They saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs with the past receding away before their eyes. When you think about it, that’s a more accurate metaphor than our present one. Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know? [...] […] My challenge is moving beyond my mental map of existing computing paradigms. I blogged last August about Robert Pirsig’s afterword to the 10th anniversay edition of Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance where he describes the Ancient Greek perception of time. Time carries you on the back of an oxcart, facing the road you have already travelled: They saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs with the past receding away before their eyes. When you think about it, that’s a more accurate metaphor than our present one. Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know? […]

]]> http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2007/08/13/some-great-quotes-collected-by-tim-oreilly/#comment-25565 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:47:09 +0000 http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2007/08/13/some-great-quotes-collected-by-tim-oreilly/#comment-25565 [...] Picked-up this collection of quotes from Tim O’Reilly via S.K.Murphy, cross-linked because he refers to this quote from Pirsig talking about his ZMM, (and he uses a link to my Pirsig bio timeline). This book has a lot to say about Ancient Greek perspectives and their meaning but there is one perspective it misses. That is their view of time. They saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs with the past receding away before their eyes. [...] […] Picked-up this collection of quotes from Tim O’Reilly via S.K.Murphy, cross-linked because he refers to this quote from Pirsig talking about his ZMM, (and he uses a link to my Pirsig bio timeline). This book has a lot to say about Ancient Greek perspectives and their meaning but there is one perspective it misses. That is their view of time. They saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs with the past receding away before their eyes. […]

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