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“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”

Want Literature Too Much Logic Remains Annoying Artificial Bores Constructs Annoyed Elude Bores You

Author:Andre Gide

“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.”

Believe Hard I Believe Design Building Concepts Labor Essence Software Entity Representation Constructs Testing Fidelity Representing Specifications

Author:Fred Brooks

“We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.”

Wells May Art Whole Virtue Succeed Absolutes Foundation Good Things Including Calm Justify Construction Documents Organize Constructs Cultivating Calm Down

Author:Paul Klee

“A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without necessarily intending them to be the prototype for serial production. As a result, there became available a body of knowledge about what would work and what would not work.”

World Body Results Groups Source Computer Prepared Productions Various Available Constructs Serials Prototype Source Of Strength

Author:Maurice Wilkes

“The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.”

“I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own characterthe author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.”

Thinking Wells Looks Littles Character Feelings Reader Noses Constructs Explaining Chins

Author:Jose Saramago

“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.”

Wells Pain Pleasure Moral Class Principles Seeing Members Tables Coffee Abstract Sheer Constructs Torment Ruling Theoretical Moral Principles

Book:The Acid House

Source: The Acid House

“It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label "Lebanese," preferring the less restrictive "Levantine" designation.”

Speech Labels Remarkable This Day Flags Constructs Nationality Anthem National Anthem Designation Lebanese

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.”

States Democracy Focus Conflict Sole Constructs Exposure Defence

Author:Anthony de Jasay

“The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.”

Core Constructs Infallible Delusional

Author:Frederick Franck

“Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected, and make sense.”

Ifs World Humans Dream Age Faith Universe Offers Prove Presses Connected Driven Make Sense Metaphysics Constructs Strangeness Terrain

Author:E. O. Wilson

“When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.”

World Writing Book Couple Fit Areas Focused Mood Setting Settings Narrative Atmosphere Constructs Writing A Book

Author:China Mieville

“C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.”

Enough Helping Use Language Simple Direct Spots Programming Constructs Programming Languages Inconvenient

Author:Linus Torvalds

“It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.”

Littles Seems Space Constructs Paradoxical Coordinates Configuration

Author:Louis de Broglie

“Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.”

Made Facts Church Impact Historical Constructs Christendom Deep Impact

Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.”

Space Environment Perspective Devices Constructs Handy Detrimental Sketching

Author:Paul Laseau

“Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries.”

Source: Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World

“The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth.”

Source: Gesammelte Abhandlungen

“There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor is there a lowest point. These configurations are ideas. Ideas are primitive constructs, symbolic representations, reflections in a mirror.”

Ideas Ends Highest Reflection Absolutes Mirrors Finals Mysticism Primitive Representation Lowest Constructs Symbolic Configuration Lowest Point

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel ... back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there.”

Ifs Firsts Jesus Individual Christ Atheism Century Figures Historical Positive Atheism Uncles Constructs Theologian Symbolic Theological Synthetic Nazareth Uncle Sam

Author:Robert M. Price

“Let's admit that feminism came from liberalism and it was very positive. But then it went dark. It went into a bad place. When feminism replaced biology with social construct, they started to say that everything about a human being was created by your environment or by your - by environmental cues as opposed to innate traits... Like you didn't achieve what you could get because it was your fault. They denied traits that are applied across all cultures. And that's where feminism went wrong is it denied biology and makes them look foolish.”

Looks Culture Social Dark Feminism Achieve Like You Faults Foolish Liberalism Biology Denied Traits Replaced Constructs Very Positive

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.”

People World Believe Mean Reason Body My Own Animal Dog Materials My Friends Cat Horse Communicate Reason Why Constructs My Dog Spectators Material World Cat And Dog

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe.”

Giving Believe Heart Facts Earth Universe Stars Accepting Sun Concepts Don't Believe Definitions Billions Traditional Visible Constructs Galaxy Intriguing God Image

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.”

Knows Character Speak Voice Watches Novelists Constructs

Author:Andre Gide

“I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.”

Wanted Used House My Own Building Draws Architect Constructs

Author:Boyd Holbrook

“Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.”

Vision Youth Privilege Charming Constructs Castles In The Air

Book:Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

“Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.”

May Done Use Lasts Evil Process Pleasure Hell Pieces Habit Eternal Stones Woods This Life Satan Construction Centre Constructs Builder Arches Keystones Firewood

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.”

Men Social Female Males Gentleman Constructs Masculinity Femininity Be A Man Ladies And Gentlemen Females And Males

Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.”

Mean Children Done Easy Personality Substitutes Suggestions Constructs Coercion

Book:HER LIFE AND WORK

Source: HER LIFE AND WORK

“One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.”

Humans Art Might Culture Literature Alive Art Is Tasks Dialogue Evolve Constructs Piety Responsiveness

Book:Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

“Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.”

Self Helping Understanding Hurt Study Conscious Photographer Organized Composition Constructs Self Conscious

Author:Berenice Abbott

“You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.”

Needs Giving Persons Young Identity Ego Creating Structure Constructs Narcissistic

Author:Richard Rohr

“You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.”

Needs Drama Constructs

Author:Jerry Stahl

“Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.”

Mind Moments Humor Success Attention Focus Failure Perspective Balance Luck Labels Present Moment Constructs Good Luck Success And Failure Good Humor

Author:Tom Bergeron

“I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.”

Thinking Night Social Space Architecture Constructs Day And Night

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.”

Mind Character Imagination Color Theater Radio Listeners Constructs Costumes Palette

Book:The Quality of Mercy

Source: The Quality of Mercy

“Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton.”

Character Hands Sentiments Biographies Constructs Anatomy Skeletons Anecdotes

Book:Summer Time in the Country

Source: Summer Time in the Country

“Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others.”

Thinking Whole Able Given Force Responsibility Our Lives Sight Burden Vehicle Constructs

Author:Alexis De Veaux

“Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.”

“A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them”

Men World Found Individual Effort Player Greatness Skills Chess Trials Permanent Great Men Display Constructs Confined Trophies Momentary Chess Players Individual Effort

Author:William Hazlitt

“I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.”

People Knows World Humans Reality Human Beings Forget Events Danger Evidence Versions Constructs

Author:Dale Spender

“Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, and become mothers of possible presidents? Assuredly not. Should the women of America ever discover what their power might be, and compare it with what it is, much improvement might be hoped for.”

Should Made Might America Mother Purpose Women President Improvement Compare Shirts Sexism Constructs T Shirt Stockings Fabricate Gingerbread

Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume

“one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.”

Trying Home Natural Constructs

Book:The Prodigal Women

Source: The Prodigal Women

“However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other worlds and to construct one of his own and that the aim of the translator is to re-embody himself into the world of the various writers.”

World Forget Aim Various Temptation Rejects Constructs Other Worlds Translators

Author:Ventseslav Konstantinov

“We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.”

Artist Culture Community Constructs

Author:David Bayles

“If there is education, there will be everything in life. Government can make roads, hospitals and also construct school buildings. But your homes can brighten up only if your children are educated. I am confident that if we focus on education, our society will certainly develop.”

Ifs Children Home Government School Education Focus Building India Our Children Educated Your Children Our Society Hospitals Constructs School Buildings

Author:Narendra Modi

“Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.”

Giving Soul Body Government School Parent Education Teacher Building Birth India Magnificent Constructs Guru Giver School Buildings

Author:Narendra Modi

“I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a bit of a roller coaster ride...”

People Firsts Whole Bigs Wanted Middle Pages Plot Constructs Turning Points Roller Coaster Coasters Roller Coaster Rides

Author:Mark Haddon

“Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.”

Left Black President Election Impact Wings Tension Constructs Left Wing Animosity Euphemism Racial Tension

Author:Dennis Prager

“Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.”

Mind Stills Purpose Universe Numbers Known Keys Findings Infinite Patterns Paradox Constructs Enigma

Author:Agnes Denes

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