X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=blobdiff_plain;f=bdale%2Fquotes.mdwn;h=b2d4063135a3b41f978484ae47d25d01e006822d;hp=803624ed61f530c72a17bf69a7098001921c206e;hb=96dd3a726689b70955ba8a4db1d20932afd2e3b7;hpb=efcf486416ea9b41fa12249fb957676cf0b2caaf diff --git a/bdale/quotes.mdwn b/bdale/quotes.mdwn index 803624e..b2d4063 100644 --- a/bdale/quotes.mdwn +++ b/bdale/quotes.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,23 @@ On Life

"That which hinders your task is your task." +

+"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 +164,14 @@ 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

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"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 @@ -287,6 +312,12 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

"Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers."
-- Theodore Ts'o, in a posting about Debian, Philosophy, and People +

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+"Being awesome is exhausting." +
-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013 +

On Programming -------------- @@ -365,6 +396,7 @@ struggling with the code, compiler and environment." "System administrators pray to Eris, afterwards, very softly, thanking her for staying away..."
--Kees J Bot, in comp.os.minix, talking about preparing for an upgrade... +

On Porsches ----------- @@ -388,6 +420,11 @@ 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 --------------------