“When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.”
— Farkas Bolyai, to his son Janos, urging him to claim the invention of non-Euclidean geometry without delay.
Quoted in Li & Vitanyi, An introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications, 1st ed., p. 83. Wikipedia entry on “Multiple discovery”
My name is Jerry Paffendorf. I am an American mutt living and working in lovely and inspiring Detroit, Michigan.
I am also an artist, futurist, entrepreneur, and swell guy pouring love into LOVELAND Technologies, the Imagination Station, and related efforts to connect the internets, maps, fundraising, and storytelling to the making of good, new, and often surprising things.
Reach me at jerry@makeloveland.com or 908-343-1981. Tweet me @wello or @makeloveland. ❤
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