O Quotes
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“Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm”
“Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.”
“Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.”
“Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty—or violence—he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects himself from the natural human emotions of guilt and empathy, so that he can sleep at night with a clear conscience. He distances himself so far from her humanity that her feelings no longer count, or simply cease to exist. These walls tend to grow over time, so that after a few years in a relationship my clients can reach a point where they feel no more guilt over degrading or threatening their partners than you or I would feel after angrily kicking a stone in the driveway.”
Source: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of cruelty-he builds to the next. By depersonalizing his partner, the abuser protects himself from the natural human emotions of guilt and empathy, so that he can sleep at night with a clear conscience. He distances himself so far from her humanity that her feelings no longer count, or simply cease to exist.”
“Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.”
“Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is the novel I want to write. And when you're done you need to think: This is what the novel I wanted to write feels like and reads like and looks like. Other people might call it sweeping or small, but it's the book you chose.”
“Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.”
“Objection! This defendant, evil genius that he is, has through his abhorrent actions managed to racially discriminate against every race all at the same time, to say nothing of his unabashed slaveholding. The state of California feels that it has more than enough evidence to prove that the defendant is in abject violation of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1871, 1957, 1964 and 1968, the Equal Rights Act of 1963, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, and at least six of the goddamn Ten Commandments.”
Source: The Sellout
“Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well...he's my witness!”
“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
“Objections to Christianity... are phrased in words, but that does not mean that they are really a matter of language and analysis and argument. Words are tokens of the will. If something stronger than language were available then we would use it. But by the same token, words in defense of Christianity miss the mark as well: they are a translation into the dispassionate language of argument of something that resides far deeper in the caverns of volition, of commitment. Perhaps this is why Saint Francis, so the story goes, instructed his followers to "preach the Gospel always, using words if necessary." It is not simply and straightforwardly wrong to make arguments in the defense of the Christian faith, but it is a relatively superficial activity: it fails to address the core issues.”
Source: The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
“Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.”
“Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.”
Source: Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top
“Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?”
“Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.”
“Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.”
“Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.”
Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
“Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.”
Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“Objective motives and subjective compulsions that incite a person to write is the decisive element in defining the writer’s unique voice. Anyone who does not understand oneself or is unwilling to ferret out their own buried, true identity and publicly unmask the hidden stranger that resides within us all will never be a person who can bridge a connection with other people who share similar thoughts, feelings, wants, and needs. Lacking critical discernment, this want-a-be writer will remain a cosseted imposter, playing a coldhearted game of charades. If a person is unwilling to peel back the craggy mask that we conceal ourselves behind and explore the seeds of inner awareness wrapped inside the enigma of doubt engulfing all people, one can still aim to be a writer of nonfiction or technical journals. Creative writing, in sharp contrast, is for the intrepid cliff dwellers, the recluses willing to mine the soft belly of their internal psychosis.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction
“Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.”
Source: O'Keeffe
“Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.”
“Objective Reality and Truth requires neither ones consent nor dissent.”
“Objective Reality (Truth) is neither Yin nor Yang. Infinite Truth is Prior to Duality; it is at the Center; it is the One; it is the All....”
Source: Random Molecular Mirroring
“Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).”
“Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.”
“Objectively, I knew how stupid all of it sounded, how much I shouldn't be measuring myself in terms of having a man, looking thinner, or having a clear skin. But, God, I knew that was what everybody else would be doing.”
“Objectively to just look at them, I couldn’t tell you which one was more beautiful. Each woman has a type of beauty unique to herself and when that woman held as much as these two, trying to decide which one had more was an exercise in futility. However, beyond physical beauty, there is something more important, a second type of beauty that grows the longer you know someone. You appreciate them more with every interaction and smile. As you learn more about them and spend more time with them, it grows. This second type of beauty can augment the first, but its also its own separate thing. That second type of beauty is much more important than the first. And so, my eyes were drawn to Sierra.”
Source: Cody Black Vampire Hunter: Bite of the Wolf
“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.”
“Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.”
“Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.”
Source: People and Performance
“Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.”
“Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.”
“Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the assumption "We are good, they are evil," or "We know what is good and right and we know what is wrong," so all questions are settled in advance by a set of ideological prejudices.”
“Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.”
“Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.”
Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
“Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.”
Source: Saving lost positions
“Objectivity begins with the realization that one is subjective.”
Source: The Third Heaven: The Rise of Fallen Stars
“Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.”
“Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).”
“Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.”
“Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.”
“Objectivity does not mean detachment, it means respect; that is, the ability not to falsify things, persons, and oneself.”
Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.”
“Objectivity is a fallacy...there are different opinions, but you dont give them equal weight.”
“Objectivity is a false god, and the worship of this idol is particularly pernicious in disciplines like journalism and history. It is not possible to be objective----although of course it is possible to be honest. By pretending to attain to objectivity, a writer's fundamental faith commitments are not eliminated, but rather submerged----and they then come out in interesting and intellectually dishonest ways.”
Source: Black and Tan: Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America
“Objectivity is a subjective fantasy implanted in us by an external will seeking to curtail our creativity by limiting our minds to our own detriment.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.”
“Objectivity is just male subjectivity.”