“Oggi, in questo mondo sovraffollato, non credo ci resti, per viaggiare davvero, altra direzione che l'Aurora. Non so perché ci ostiniamo a chiamarla Est. È un doppio inganno. Quel monosillabo assembla cose diversissime e incompatibili: il Centro Europa, i Balcani, l'impero russo, l'arcipelago dei mondi musulmani dalla Turchia in poi. E poi quella parola secca è un marchio, un timbro extracomunitario che respinge, notifica i nostri vuoti mentali, i nostri pregiudizi. È una sbarra che chiude la strada, non una porta che si apre su altri mondi. Per questo preferisco chiamarla Oriente.”
Source: Tre uomini in bicicletta
“Una sera, sui monti della Bulgaria, con Venere che brillava in un cielo umido color malva, mi è capitato di pensare che solo il nomade vive in pace col sole e le sorgenti, dunque capisce Dio, l'Essenza. Oppure che Cristianesimo, Ebraismo e Islam sono monoteismi nati dalla purezza dello stesso spazio nomade, il vicino Oriente appunto. E che tutti rischiano finire rivinati proprio dai sedentari, dalle loro gerarchie totalitarie, i loro muri, le loro ossessive compartimentazioni dello spazio e quelle stupide torri di Babele.”
Source: Tre uomini in bicicletta
“...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb.”
Source: Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
“Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced; it was agreed that friends just didn't get it; tears were shed; comfort proffered.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“At the risk of coming off as just very slightly negative: Flow Designer is the single greatest travesty ever visited upon humanity by itself.”
Source: ServiceNow Development Handbook - 4th Edition: A compendium of ServiceNow "NOW" platform development and architecture pro-tips, guidelines, and best practices
“My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random patterns, as we know from scientific evidence, on top of the numerous legends about faces of Jesus, or the Virgin Mary, or Mother Teresa, being seen on slices of toast, or pizzas, or patches of damp on a wall. This eagerness is enhanced if the pattern departs from randomness in the specific direction of being symmetrical.”
Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“If your query returns a small number of rows but filters inefficiently, the database might still have to scan a large portion of the table and sort all those matching rows, which involves temporary memory, CPU, and often some significant amount of disk I/O - especially without an index on the field you're ordering by. Keep this in mind when considering whether to sort the results of your query using .orderBy() or .orderByDesc(), and be sure never to do so either willily, or nillily.”
Source: ServiceNow Development Handbook - 4th Edition: A compendium of ServiceNow "NOW" platform development and architecture pro-tips, guidelines, and best practices
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“When your audience relates to your business’ values, it helps in building an instant connection.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Authenticity is what makes a relatable person believable. It is what makes the relatability sustainable. Anyone can fake relatability for a time, but authenticity is what makes it real.”
Source: The Connectworker