John Perry
John Perry
smart cookies
Voltaire was a smart cookie.
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The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?
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Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.
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The emergence of China is driving fundamental change in the Asia-Pacific region. This process will provide an opportunity for Brunei Darussalam to re-position itself within the regional economies.
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I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.
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I had it figured that Jerry Kern could win his division, but he got beat by a couple of pounds.
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Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.
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You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.
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In performing its assessment, AmbironTrustWave scrutinized every aspect of our operations. AmbironTrustWave audited the security of our network, the steps that our 110 employees take to safeguard cardholder data, our vulnerability management program, our information security policy and our ability to regularly monitor and test our network.
I quit. They are not going to kill me.
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There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.
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Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
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It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
humor
I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.