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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.
ignorant mystery known
Chinua Achebe That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.
ignorant half earth
David Walker I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.
ignorant let-me knows
William Shakespeare Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
ignorant curiosity able
Benjamin Franklin We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.
ignorant scriptures superior versed
Rig Veda A Brahmin well versed in the scriptures is undoubtedly superior to an ignorant person.
ignorant learned pray worse
Philip Massinger Pray enter, You are learned Europeans, and we worse Than ignorant Americans
ignorant foe
Brian Herbert An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.
ignorant may certain
Charles Osgood While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.
ignorant
Barry Gibb I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
firsts sun start-the-day
Charles Dickens The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
firsts profession
Charles Caleb Colton A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
firsts three novel
Charles Stross I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.
firsts christ salvation
Charles Spurgeon The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
firsts done christ
Charles Spurgeon Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.
firsts language consciousness
Alan Moore Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
firsts chaos authority
Alan Moore Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
firsts film made
Al Pacino I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
firsts shy language
Al Pacino My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.