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"It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind."
--from THE VOYAGE OF THE ‘BEAGLE’ (1839)
Henry Graham Greene OM CH, better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the great writers of the 20th century. Wikipedia
Born: October 2, 1904, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
Died: April 3, 1991, Vevey, Switzerland
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
“Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.”
―from THE HUMAN FACTOR (1978) by Graham Greene
【即時頭條】台積電董事長張忠謀宣佈2018年6月退休
全球晶圓代工龍頭台積電的創辦人暨董事長張忠謀宣佈將在2018年6月退休，交棒給現任的兩位共同CEO，由雙首長平行領導接續。
台積電在新聞稿中表示，現任CEO之一的劉德音將接任董事長，魏哲家則將擔任總裁。所有董事均已同意被提名並於股東會選舉後續任下屆董事，並同意支持自下屆起由雙首長平行領導。
新聞稿援引張忠謀稱，「過去三十餘年創辦及奉獻台積電，是我人生中非常興奮、愉快的一段時期。現在，我想把我的餘年保留給自己及家庭。」
張忠謀並稱，劉德音與魏哲家兩人自2013年起擔任共同CEO職務，表現優越。未來在兩人的領導下，以及大致不變的董事會監督及支持下，」我有充分信心，台積電將持續再創奇蹟。」
分析師：台積電產業領先地位不變
台新投顧副總經理黃文清在電話採訪中指出，台積電由兩位共同CEO接掌的人事佈局已久，對市場來說並不驚訝，半導體產業的趨勢仍然向上，預料台積電的股價和基本面都不會受到影響。
台新投顧副總經理黃文清在電話採訪中指出，台積電由兩位共同CEO接掌的人事佈局已久，對市場來說並不驚訝，半導體產業的趨勢仍然向上，預料台積電的股價和基本面都不會受到影響。
目前市場給台積電的股價評比是基於它的技術較三星、英特爾領先，以及獲利能力，張忠謀也早已為台積電布好藍圖，台積電在三至五年內的產業領先地位不會改變。
張忠謀在2013年時已卸任CEO一職後並選任共同CEO，開始培養接班人的計劃。在今天宣佈也將自董事長一職卸任後，確認了在1987年成立的台積電將在明年正式進入後張忠謀時代。台積電的主要客戶包括蘋果及高通等。
上周台積電甫宣佈將在台灣南部科學園區投資興建三奈米先進製程的新廠，以持續充分發揮公司在該園區既有的完整聚落與供應鏈優勢。
受到iPhone十周年新機等產品有望吸引買氣的期望帶動，台積電股價今年以來已大漲21.5％，根據彭博億萬富豪指數，現年86歲的張忠謀的身價也因此躋身10億美元俱樂部。根據台灣證交所截至8月底數據，張忠謀持有台積電0.48％的股份。台積電週一收高1.9％。
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, British India on this day in 1869.
"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this nation’s own civil rights movement. Taken from Gandhi’s writings throughout his life, The Essential Gandhi introduces us to his thoughts on politics, spirituality, poverty, suffering, love, non-violence, civil disobedience, and his own life. The pieces collected here, with explanatory head notes by Gandhi biographer Louis Fischer, offer the clearest, most thorough portrait of one of the greatest spiritual leaders the world has known. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-essential-gandhi-…/
Mahātmā Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. Wikipedia
Born: October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India
Full name: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Assassinated: January 30, 1948, New Delhi, India
Spouse: Kasturba Gandhi (m. 1883–1944)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.
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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS was first published on this day in 1954 to honor Stevens’s seventy-fifth birthday. It was awarded the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
"Of Modern Poetry"
The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.
It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place.
It has to face the men of the time and to meet
The women of the time. It has to think about war
And it has to find what will suffice. It has
To construct a new stage. It has to be on that stage,
And, like an insatiable actor, slowly and
With meditation, speak words that in the ear,
In the delicatest ear of the mind, repeat,
Exactly, that which it wants to hear, at the sound
Of which, an invisible audience listens,
Not to the play, but to itself, expressed
In an emotion as of two people, as of two
Emotions becoming one. The actor is
A metaphysician in the dark, twanging
An instrument, twanging a wiry string that gives
Sounds passing through sudden rightnesses, wholly
Containing the mind, below which it cannot descend,
Beyond which it has no will to rise.
It must
Be the finding of a satisfaction, and may
Be of a man skating, a woman dancing, a woman
Combing. The poem of the act of the mind.
It has to face the men of the time and to meet
The women of the time. It has to think about war
And it has to find what will suffice. It has
To construct a new stage. It has to be on that stage,
And, like an insatiable actor, slowly and
With meditation, speak words that in the ear,
In the delicatest ear of the mind, repeat,
Exactly, that which it wants to hear, at the sound
Of which, an invisible audience listens,
Not to the play, but to itself, expressed
In an emotion as of two people, as of two
Emotions becoming one. The actor is
A metaphysician in the dark, twanging
An instrument, twanging a wiry string that gives
Sounds passing through sudden rightnesses, wholly
Containing the mind, below which it cannot descend,
Beyond which it has no will to rise.
It must
Be the finding of a satisfaction, and may
Be of a man skating, a woman dancing, a woman
Combing. The poem of the act of the mind.
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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS is the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet.” Originally published in 1954, the book was rushed into print for the occasion to celebrate the author's birthday and contained scores of errors. These have now been corrected in one place for the first time by Stevens scholars John N. Serio and Christopher Beyers, based on original editions and manuscripts. The Collected Poems is the one volume that Stevens intended to contain all the poems he wished to preserve, presented in the way he wanted. An essential collection for all readers of poetry, it is an enduring monument to his dazzling achievement.
Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. Wikipedia
Born: October 2, 1879, Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: August 2, 1955, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
"The Snow Man"
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
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