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learning ignorance knowledge
Alan Watts The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.
learning evolution programming
Alan Perlis Optimization hinders evolution.
learning nouns programming
Alan Perlis Any noun can be verbed.
learning thinking language
Alan Perlis A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
learning thinking knowing
Alan Perlis A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
learning machines program
Alan Perlis To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learning judging criticism
Edward Gibbon The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
learning doe demand
David Hood If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.
thinking words-of-wisdom done
Charles Dickens At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .
thinking words-of-wisdom asking
Charles Dickens When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
thinking hiking feet-and-walking
Charles Dickens If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking two glory
Charles Caleb Colton There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
thinking enemy frankness
Charles Caleb Colton He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking daring finished
Charles Caleb Colton Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
thinking mind wish
Charles Dickens I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
language description hard
Alan Watts It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
language programming programming-languages
Alan Perlis In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
language english-language programming-languages
Alan Perlis In English every word can be verbed.
language individual should
Chogyam Trungpa Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
language feels i-can
Antony Sher I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.
language guides insight
C. S. Lewis Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
language film boring
Alan Rudolph Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
language programming programming-languages
Alan Kay The greatest single programming language ever designed
language building programming
Alan Kay Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.