Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Niccolo Machiavelli: New system
“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain…
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Jean Piaget: New things
“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.” —Jean Piaget.
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Paul Dirac: Exact opposite
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” —Paul Dirac.
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James Thurber: The Fairly Intelligent Fly
‘A large spider in an old house built a beautiful web in which to catch flies. Every time a fly landed on the web and was entangled in it the spider devoured him, so that when another fly came along he would think the web was a safe and quiet place in which to rest.…
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Charity
“Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.” —-Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Charles Tomlinson: Locks
“A commercial, and in some respects a social, doubt has been started within the last year or two, whether or not it is right to discuss so openly the security or insecurity of locks. Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for…
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Jerry Seinfeld: Show-business survival
“It’s one thing to create. The other is you have to choose. ‘What are we going to do, and what are we not going to do?’ This is a gigantic aspect of show-business survival. It’s kind of unseen, what’s picked and what is discarded, but mastering that is how you stay alive.” — Jerry Seinfeld.
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Mark Twain: Public opinion
“Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.” —Mark Twain.
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Brendan Behan: Shoot me in my absence
“When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” —Brendan Behan.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Empty attic
“You see, I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at…
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Paul Samuelson: I change my mind
“Well when events change, I change my mind. What do you do?”—Paul Samuelson, winner of 1970 Nobel Prize in Economics, about how his models of inflation during WWII kept changing over time, and he was criticized for “not being able to make up his mind.”
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James Baldwin: Books
“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.” —James Baldwin.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Of the hill
“No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it.” —Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Mick Jagger: Letting yourself go
“It’s all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.” —Mick Jagger.
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Herman Melville: Humanity over humanity
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” —Herman Melville.
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Laine Campbell & Charity Majors: Scale
“…scale has four pathways…• Scale vertically, via resource allocation. aka scale up • Scale horizontally, by duplication of the system or service. aka scale out • Separate workloads to smaller sets of functionality, to allow for each to scale independently, also known as functional partitioning • Split specific workloads into partitions that are identical, other…
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Bjarne Stroustrup: Two kinds of languages
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” ―Bjarne Stroustrup.
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Carlos Arguelles: Waves
“When you surf, which waves you jump on and at what time you do makes all the difference.” — Carlos Arguelles.
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C Northcote Parkinson: Important
“The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.” —C. Northcote Parkinson.
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Oktal: .Net
“I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.” — Oktal.
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Rainer Rilke: Infinite distances
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.” —Rainer Rilke.
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Karl Popper: Social creatures
“We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.” —Karl Popper.
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Sinead O’Connor: When you live with the Devil
“When you live with the Devil you learn there’s a God very quickly.” —Sinead O’Connor.
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Sinead O’Connor: Fire them instantly
“If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.” —Sinead O’Connor.
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Sinead O’Connor: God and religion
“I think there’s a difference between God and religion.” —Sinead O’Connor.
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Sinead O’Connor: Haven for criminals
“As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.” —Sinead O’Connor.
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Sinead O’Connor: Twitter
“Twitter is really for lonesome people, isn’t it? And I was desperately, desperately lonely.” —Sinead O’Connor.
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Sinead O’Connor: Abuse of children
“I don’t believe in heaven or hell. I don’t believe in any sort of burning. I don’t believe it’s right to teach children that God is somebody that will punish them if they misbehave, that God isn’t somebody who understands. That’s an abuse of children.” —Sinead O’Connor.
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Sinead O’Connor: Success makes you invisible
“It’s a very complicated thing to explain, but the price you pay for being a successful musician is your life, and the more successful you are, the more of a price you pay. That makes you invisible. People project onto you, and they see something that isn’t really you, and the only time you’re with…
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Carl Sagan: Built-in error-correcting mechanism
“At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes — an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. Of course, scientists make…
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Kathleen Norris: Conflict
“In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.” —Kathleen Norris.
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Philippe Schnoebelen: Algebraic symbols
“Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.” —Philippe Schnoebelen.
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George Bernard Shaw: Lion tamer
“I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want…
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Phyllis Rose: Bad luck
“If the hero or heroine didn’t have a flaw, it wouldn’t be tragic because it wouldn’t ‘mean’ anything. It would just be bad luck.” — Phyllis Rose.
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Eric Hoffer: No chaste minds
“There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.” —Eric Hoffer.
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Merrick Furst: Time and space
“The biggest difference between time and space is that you can’t reuse time. “ —Merrick Furst.
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Amelia Earhart: Courage
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.” —Amelia Earhart.
