U Quotes
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“University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.”
“University is the only place where professors stuff your mind with all great ideas of standing up to make political change. But when you put that into effect within the university system, you are classfied as a troublemaker”
Source: Persecuted in search of change
“University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers . . . and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.”
“University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.”
“University professors are one of the most 5G irradiated professions.”
“University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.”
Source: You Had Me At Hello
“University should be a place where innovation, creativity, and critical thinking are developed, promoted, and inspired but shouldn't be a place from where people get certificates, convocation, and medals. Remember education is light through which we see things of the world clearer but after education, if it fails to do so then you know where you have been put in darkness and made you vanilla.”
“University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.”
Source: A gift horse, and other stories
“University training teaches discipline.”
“University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is to discover truth, codify it through techniques of scholarship, and then teach it. Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization not just download data into student skulls.”
“University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.”
“UNIVERSO
O problema de viver muito no universo de alguém
é que você esquece proporcionalmente o tamanho do seu”
Source: Meu corpo virou poesia
“UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.”
“Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.”
“UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.”
“Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.”
“Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.”
“Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.”
“UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
It just picks its friends more carefully than others.”
“Unix is back in vogue.”
“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”
“Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.”
“Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic: a living body of narrative that many people know by heart, and tell over and over again—making their own personal embellishments whenever it strikes their fancy. The bad embellishments are shouted down, the good ones picked up by others, polished, improved, and, over time, incorporated into the story. […] Thus Unix has slowly accreted around a simple kernel and acquired a kind of complexity and asymmetry about it that is organic, like the roots of a tree, or the branchings of a coronary artery. Understanding it is more like anatomy than physics.”
“Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.”
“UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.”
“Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.”
“Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.”
“Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.”
“Unjust Discourse: To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is a talent worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.”
Source: Clouds
“Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.”
“Unjust force can never give any just dominion.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot
“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”
Source: Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations
“Unjust laws aren't laws at all.”
“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them? Or shall we endeavor to amend them and obey them until we have succeeded? Or shall we transgress them at once? — 1849 Essay on Civil Disobedience.”
“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?”
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“Unjust rule does not last forever.”
“Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process.”
Source: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
“Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.”
“Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!”
Source: History as Literature and Other Essays
“Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.”
“Unjustified ambition kills value,
Kills someone else's desire to fly,
Cuts their wings, sucks their air.
If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.”
“Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
“Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author
“Unkar Delta at Mile 73
The layers of brick red sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone of the Dox formation deposited a billion years ago, erode easily, giving the landscape an open, rolling character very different that the narrow, limestone walled canyon upstream, both in lithology and color, fully fitting Van Dyke’s description of “raspberry-red color, tempered with a what-not of mauve, heliotrope, and violet.” Sediments flowing in from the west formed deltas, floodplains, and tidal flats, which indurated into these fine-grained sedimentary rocks thinly laid deposits of a restful sea, lined with shadows as precise as the staves of a musical score, ribboned layers, an elegant alteration of quiet siltings and delicious lappings, crinkled water compressed, solidified, lithified.”
Source: Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
“Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.”
“Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.”
“Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.”
Source: The Guermantes Way
“Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.”
“Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.”