A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer | daddymodern

A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer | daddymodern: "Only a part – howbeit a very important part – of our behavior is practical… The remainder serve simply to express ideas that the organism yearns to express, i.e. to act upon without practical purpose, without any view to satisfying other needs than the need of completing in overt action the brain’s symbolic process. (emphasis mine)"