Tom Chatfield famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
-- Tom Chatfield

#Journey #Self #Training
In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from â€˜Who are you?â€™ towards â€˜What are you doing?
-- Tom Chatfield

#Self #Age #Examination
We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living
-- Tom Chatfield

#Miracle #Age #Texture
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.
-- Tom Chatfield

#Book #Mean #Cutting
I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.
-- Tom Chatfield

#Ideas #Games #Broken
If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.
-- Tom Chatfield

#Men #Machines #Levels
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
-- Tom Chatfield

#Proxy #Attentiveness #Understood

I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.
I was once naÃ¯ve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.
What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

Tom Chatfield famous quotes

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