T Quotes
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“The Escalation Game is not an exotic brainteaser. Real life presents us with quandaries in which we are, as the saying goes, in for a penny, in for a pound. They include long-running labor strikes, dueling lawsuits, and literal wars of attrition, in which each nation feeds men and matériel into the maw of the war machine hoping the other side will exhaust itself first. The common rationale is “We fight so that our boys will not have died in vain,” a textbook example of the sunk-cost fallacy but also a tactic in the pathetic quest for a Pyrrhic victory. Many of the bloodiest wars in history were wars of attrition, showing once again how the infuriating logic of game theory may explain some of the tragedies of the human condition. Though persisting with a certain probability may be the least bad option once one is trapped in an Escalation Game, the truly rational strategy is not to play in the first place.”
Source: Rationality
“The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.”
“The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.”
“The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.”
“The escape from industrialism is not in socialism or in Sovietism. The answer lies in a return to a society where agriculture is practiced by most of the people. It is in fact impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper regard for the soil, no matter how many urban dwellers think that their food comes from grocers and delicatessens, or their milk from tin cans. This ignorance does not release them from a final dependence upon the farm and that most incorrigible of beings, the farmer.”
“The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
[The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]”
“The escaped polar bear owned Central Park. Until we killed it.”
Source: The New Order
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”
Source: Surfacing
“The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.”
“The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?”
“The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.”
Source: Man, His First Two Million Years: A Brief Introduction to Anthropology
“The ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, is not funded by Germany alone. Twenty-seven percent of the bailout package comes from Germany. Italy and France together cover a total of 38 percent. That's reality. It makes no sense to say that everyone wants to get at Germany's money.”
“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”
Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“The essay becomes an exercise in the meaning and value of watching a writer conquer their own sense of threat to deliver themself of their wisdom.”
Source: The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
“The essay community should have hundreds of anthologies from hundreds of different perspectives that are constantly introducing us to new writers, new work, and new visions for our genre. The whole spirit of these anthologies is that there should never be a last word in how essays are interpreted or what they can be.”
“The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.”
“The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.”
Source: The Name of the Star
“The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything”
Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal, Mary McCarthy, Mailer.”
“The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.”
“The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.”
“The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.”
“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.”
Source: Essays of E. B. White
“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who enjoy bird walks enjoys theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new 'attempt,' differs from the last and takes him into new country. This delights him. Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.”
Source: Essays of E. B. White
“The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.”
“The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.”
“The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.”
“The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.”
Source: Great Contemporaries
“The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.”
Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
“The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.”
“The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.”
“The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?”
“The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will not permit considerations of comfort or convenience to stand in his way. His most outstanding characteristic is his objectivity, his ability to rise above the dust of the arena, to resist the hypnotising effects of words and the blind passion of cults, political or religious.”
“The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.”
Source: Always Unreliable: Memoirs
“The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.”
“The essence of a fallen world is that the best cannot be attained by free enjoyment, or by what is called "self-realization" (usually a nice name for self-indulgence, wholly inimical to the realization of other selves); but by denial, by suffering.”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams
“The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.”
“The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.”
“The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.”
“The essence of a man is found in his faults.”
“The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.”
“The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.”
“The essence of a poet lies not in articulating thoughts, but in bleeding raw emotion onto the page.
It's a tumultuous dance, a desperate clinging to individuality in a world striving for uniformity. To feel is to be an anomaly, a rebel against the current.
And therein lies the poet's struggle - a lifelong fight to preserve the untamed spirit within, a battle waged with every word.”
“The essence of a Power Dresser is a woman who skillfully blends professional style with personal energy, thus captivating attention and earning respect in any environment.”
Source: The Power Dressers: A Women’s Guide to Professional Style
“The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.”
“The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.”
“The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.”
“The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.”