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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.
ignorance pride whole-family
Charles Caleb Colton The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other
ignorance errors steps
Charles Caleb Colton Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.
ignorance pride thinking
Charles Caleb Colton It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
ignorance vices principles
Charles Caleb Colton Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
ignorance pedants disgusting
Charles Caleb Colton Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
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Charles Caleb Colton A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
ignorance dwelling-place darkness
Charles Spurgeon Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.
ignorance sky knowing
Alan Watts The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?
ignorance reality expectations
Alan Greenspan Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...
knowledge men order
Charles Caleb Colton Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.
knowledge simplicity complicated
Charles Caleb Colton The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
knowledge class ferns
Charles Caleb Colton In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
knowledge performances pretension
Charles Caleb Colton The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
knowledge discovery views
Charles Caleb Colton It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.
knowledge pay despise
Charles Caleb Colton To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
knowledge perfect brain
Charles Caleb Colton The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
knowledge science two
Charles Caleb Colton Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
knowledge world lifts
Charles Spurgeon Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.