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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.
tree shade way
Charles Dickens Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
tree world this-world
Alan Watts We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
tree sun bigs
Chinua Achebe When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
tree lizards praise
Chinua Achebe The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
tree remember sometimes
David Hockney It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.
tree tongue shows
William Shakespeare Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . .
tree bent grows
Bill O'Reilly As the tree is bent, so it will grow.
tree spheres earth
Bill Nye Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
tree storm violent
Bertolt Brecht The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
vines form turns
Suzanne Collins turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine
vines branches duty
Max Lucado The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.
vines sometimes enough
Cassandra Clare You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.
vines mirth toys
William Shakespeare Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?