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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.
mean secret purpose
Charles Caleb Colton None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
mean men light
Charles Caleb Colton Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
Charles Caleb Colton None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
Charles Caleb Colton We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Charles Caleb Colton Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean atheism knaves
Charles Caleb Colton He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
mean men dresses
Charles Caleb Colton It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.
mean love-is effort
Charles Dickens Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
mean land consideration
Charles Sturt The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
views christ superficial
Charles Spurgeon The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.
views people film
Alan Parker The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
views mind lovely
Alan Perlis One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
views years organization
Akhmad Kadyrov One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.
views evil causes
Aiden Wilson Tozer A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.
views lows
Aiden Wilson Tozer Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.
views ego enlightenment
Chogyam Trungpa The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
views extending fearlessness
Chogyam Trungpa Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.
views people helping
Chogyam Trungpa The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.