X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bdale%2Fquotes.mdwn;h=a172ae05c5fa538a44300de994a314cda4aa0194;hb=0b04b1131c2d56acd226ba8bf3b8e35c5629173a;hp=5acd12777bf1e8434d9b10fd3fc2c80d3722a3db;hpb=f11610de9fecad8ee0c6813060f21e8af33ed4ba;p=web%2Fgag.com diff --git a/bdale/quotes.mdwn b/bdale/quotes.mdwn index 5acd127..a172ae0 100644 --- a/bdale/quotes.mdwn +++ b/bdale/quotes.mdwn @@ -7,9 +7,25 @@ that I've chosen to pick up and carry with me... On Life ------- +
+"Taste your words before you spit them out."
+
-- Andy Card
"That which hinders your task is your task." +
+"Energy without focus is chaos."
+
-- Ne-Yo, while judging on World of Dance
+
+
+"Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine."
+
-- David Oyelowo
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+
+"Fast is relative to what you're driving."
+
-- Hurley Haywood
+
"I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education
other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is
@@ -156,6 +172,14 @@ orientation -- be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?"
intelligent are full of doubt."
-- Bertrand Russell
+"The difference between stupid and intelligent people â and this is true
+whether or not they are well-educated â is that intelligent people can
+handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory
+situations â in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious
+when things seem overly straightforward."
+
-- Neal Stephenson, from The Diamond Age
"People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue -- this @@ -404,6 +428,11 @@ Things I've Said since it's really not clear to me that increasing my breast size would increase my confidence, I didn't bother reading most of it."
++"The difference between Open Source and Free Software is that Free Software +people know there's a difference, and Open Source people try to pretend +there isn't."
+ Things Said About Me --------------------