X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=blobdiff_plain;f=bdale%2Fquotes.mdwn;h=8f40b180c247a65d75417dedd072aec8711a15c0;hp=5acd12777bf1e8434d9b10fd3fc2c80d3722a3db;hb=7357678e1fb78cfbd42b39c882b114a1ca5a95f6;hpb=f11610de9fecad8ee0c6813060f21e8af33ed4ba diff --git a/bdale/quotes.mdwn b/bdale/quotes.mdwn index 5acd127..8f40b18 100644 --- a/bdale/quotes.mdwn +++ b/bdale/quotes.mdwn @@ -7,9 +7,30 @@ that I've chosen to pick up and carry with me... On Life ------- +

+"Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan not because he hits all the right notes... + but because he hits all the right emotions." +
-- Will I Am

+ +

+"Taste your words before you spit them out." +
-- Andy Card

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"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 + +

+"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 +177,14 @@ orientation -- be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?" intelligent are full of doubt."
-- Bertrand Russell

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+"The difference between stupid and intelligent people — and this is true +whether or not they are well-educated — is that intelligent people can +handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory +situations — 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 @@ -303,6 +332,16 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013

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+“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of +a witness.” +
-- Margaret Miller +

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+"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." +
-- Margaret Mead + On Programming -------------- @@ -314,7 +353,7 @@ to do a complete Debian desktop install!"

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." -
-- Perlis

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-- Alan Perlis

"We now have a body of software accessible to everybody on earth so robust @@ -404,6 +443,11 @@ 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."

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+"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 -------------------- @@ -411,3 +455,4 @@ Things Said About Me "I was all set to get annoyed, and then I thought, 'No, that's what they pay Bdale for ...'"
--Eric Schwartz

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