I Quotes
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“In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.”
“In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.”
Source: Software Testing Techniques
“In programs, there are conditions, which the programmer must follow. Otherwise, the code won’t run. Throwing dead animals is a condition. Some may say it’s a ritual one needs to complete before the intention installs, before the will sets … But who is installing intentions?
Who wants to program the universe? Was it him?
Most importantly: Bother? Or not bother?”
Source: The High Auction
“In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive evidence that they are not necessarily impulsive but more often make thinking errors that justify the assaults. Sexual and physical offenders who profess to be remorseful after they are caught are automatically assumed to be sincere. After all, the therapist would feel terrible if he or she did such a thing. It makes perfect sense that the offender would regret abusing a child. People routinely listen to their own moral sense and assume that others share it.
Thus, those who are malevolent attack others as being malevolent, as engaging in dirty tricks, as being “in it for the money,“ and those who are well meaning assume others are too, and keep arguing logically, keep producing more studies, keep expecting an academic debate, all the time assuming that the issue at hand is the truth of the matter.
Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998 p122”
“In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.”
“In promoting Sino-Swiss economic ties, transnational companies, such as Nestle,played an active role.”
“In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.”
“In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.”
“In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.”
“In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.”
Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
“In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.”
“In proportion as men were all to resemble each other, and to have faces and manners in common, their self-love was not to be disturbed by any thing in the shape of individuality. A writer might be na tural, but he was to be natural only as far as their sense of nature would go, and this was not a great way. Besides, even when he was natural, he hardly dared to be so in language as well as idea ;- there gradually came up a kind of dress, in which a man’s mind, as well as body, was to clothe itself.”
Source: The Round Table, Vol. 1: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners
“in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.”
“In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.”
Source: Character Building
“In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay
“In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.”
“In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.”
Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author
“In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For, as the Lord says, 'A city set on a hill cannot be hid' (Mt. 5:14).”
“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.”
Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings
“In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.”
Source: Karl Marx: A Reader
“In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!”
Source: Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue
“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.”
“In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.”
“In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.”
“In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.”
“In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.”
“In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.”
Source: The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
Source: Communist Manifesto: The revolutionary text that changed the course of history
“In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.”
“In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.”
“In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.”
Source: On Liberty: Representative Government ; The Subjection of Women : Three Essays
“In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.”
“In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to the solemnity of acts, proclaiming the will authenticated by the seal of the people, the only earthly source of authority, ought to be the vigilance with which they are guarded by every citizen in private life, and the circumspection with which they are executed by every citizen in public trust.”
“In proportion to their number, [incompatible immigrants] will infuse into [the nation] their spirit, warp or bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.”
Source: Notes on the State of Virginia
“In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of literature, I mean drama, there is only silence. That sort of aesthetic integrity does not exist in radio and television, and seldom on film.”
“In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.”
“In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061
“In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.”
Source: Enchiridion
“In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.”
“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
“in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!”
Source: The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask
“In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.”
Source: The Dignity of Human Nature; or, a Brief account of the certain and established means for attaining the true end of our existence ... By J. B. (James Burgh.)
“In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.”
“In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.”
“In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.”
Source: A Benjamin Franklin reader: the essential writings of a colonial sage ; Autobiography, Wit & wisdom
“In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.”
Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering
“In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.”