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Post by Tamrin on Dec 9, 2013 6:22:41 GMT 10
Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug
Lazy folk's stummucks don't git tired
You do de pulling', Sis Cow, en I'll do de gruntin
You k'n hide de fier, but what you guine do wid de smoke?
Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luckJoel Chandler Harris, US journalist (Uncle Remus) (Born this day 1848) I am in the prime of my senility
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 9, 2013 6:23:50 GMT 10
They told me computers could only do arithmetic
Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission
Someday, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it
To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge
At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinionsGrace Hopper (“Amazing Grace”)US Admiral and computer scientist (Born this day 1906) The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way"
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 9, 2013 6:24:37 GMT 10
Like the first whiff of burning incense, or like the taste of one's first cup of saké, there is in love that moment when all its power is felt
I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things
Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emot- ions, and you will be swept away by the current. Give free rein to your desires, and you become uncomfortably confined. It is not a very agreeable place to live, this world of ours
I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now, in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead. You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves
One may be branded foolishly honest if he takes seriously the apologies others might offer. We should regard all apologies a sham and forgiving also as a sham; then everything would be all right. If one wants to make another apologize from his heart, he has to pound him good and strong until he begs for mercy from his heart
You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans. There is no such thing as a stereotype bad man in this world. Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men
You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egoistical selvesNatsume SôsekiJapanese novelist ( I am a Cat) (Died this day 1916) It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 9, 2013 6:25:18 GMT 10
Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove
By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving
If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it
Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth
I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problemAshley BrilliantAmerican academic and cartoonist ( Pot-Shots) (Born this day 1933) It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 9, 2013 6:40:18 GMT 10
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish
It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of itDame Edith SitwellEnglish poet and author ( Wheels) (Died this day 1964) Good taste is the worst vice ever invented
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 10, 2013 7:10:52 GMT 10
Tuesday’s Quotes:Two truths cannot contradict one another
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit
The necessary connection of movement and time is real and time is something the soul constructs in movement
The Law makes it obligatory to reflect upon existing things by means of the intellect, and to consider them; and consideration is nothing more than inferring and drawing out the unknown from the known
Religious thinker must make a preliminary study of logic, just as the lawyer must study legal reasoning. This is no more heretical in the one case than in the other. And logic must be learned from the ancient masters, regardless of the fact that they were not Muslims
After logic we must proceed to philosophy proper. Here too we have to learn from our predecessors, just as in mathematics and law. Thus it is wrong to forbid the study of ancient philosophy. Harm from it is acci- dental, like harm from taking medicine, drinking water, or studying law
If we admit the existence of the prophetic mission, by putting the idea of possibility, which is in fact ignorance, in place of certainty, and make miracles a proof of the truth of man who claims to be a prophet it becomes necessary that they should not be used by a person, who says that they can be performed by others than prophetsAverroës ibn-RusjdMoorish physician and philosopher (Died this day 1198) Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 10, 2013 7:12:04 GMT 10
That brain of mine is something more than merely Mortal; as time will show; (if only my breathing and some other etceteras do not make too rapid a progress towards instead of from mortality). Before ten years are over, the Devil's in it if I haven't sucked out some of the life-blood from the mysteries of this universe
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty; pre-eminently ... It is that which feels and discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things ... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis, but it has no power of anticipating any analytical revelations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with
In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrange- ment which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage's Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than alge- braical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly
Again, [the Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine…Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent
The distinctive characteristic of the Analytical Engine, and that which has rend- ered it possible to endow mechanism with such extensive faculties as bid fair to make this engine the executive right-hand of abstract algebra, is the introduct- ion into it of the principle which Jacquard devised for regulating, by means of punched cards, the most complicated patterns in the fabrication of brocaded stuffs. It is in this that the distinction between the two engines lies. Nothing of the sort exists in the Difference Engine. We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leavesCountess of Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron King)English mathematician, (“World's First Computer Programmer”) (Born this day 1815) I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 10, 2013 7:13:24 GMT 10
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it
The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water — an inch deep and then the mud
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is overGeorge MacDonaldScottish sci-fi author ( Lilith, Princess & Curdie) (Born this day 1824) To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 10, 2013 7:14:05 GMT 10
Tell the truth, but tell it slant
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles
Where thou art, that is homeEmily DickinsonAmerican poet ( Posies and Poesies) (Born this day 1830) I'm nobody, who are you?
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 10, 2013 7:17:11 GMT 10
He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher
Words divide, pictures unite
To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures
Metaphysical terms separate — scientific terms connect. United by a unified language, scientists form a kind of scholarly republic of labour, even if so many other things still separate people
If a statement is made, it is to be confronted with the totality of existing statements. If it agrees with them, it is joined to them; if it does not agree, it is called 'untrue' and rejected; or the existing complex of statements of science is modified so that the new statement can be incorporated
There is no point outside the 'world' from where we may judge on TRUE and FALSE
The happiness of the inhabitants has to be the measure for housing policyOtto NeurathAustrian philosopher of science, sociologist and political economist ( International Picture Language) (Born this day 1882) We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials( Neurath's boat)
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