+"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
"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
+a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher---a
+situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things,
+and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply
+sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned."
+
-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
+
"For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
@@ -147,6 +177,14 @@ 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
@@ -289,6 +327,21 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
-- Theodore Ts'o, in a posting about Debian, Philosophy, and People
+"Being awesome is exhausting."
+
-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
+
+âMost conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of
+a witness.â
+
-- Margaret Miller
+
+"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
--------------
@@ -300,7 +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
"We now have a body of software accessible to everybody on earth so robust @@ -390,6 +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."
++"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 -------------------- @@ -397,3 +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 ...'"