“In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFactsPastUsedTermPovertyMaterialsAbsolutesGrantedRelativeStraightforwardDeprivation Author:David Cameron
“The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.” DoneFactsPurposeMankindInformationTheoryOppositesAbsolutesMethodRelativeMultipleHypothesisSelectScientific MethodAbsolute TruthHypotheticalMultiplication Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.” KindFactsHandsPoliticalSocialDifferencesRightsEqualPossessionGenuineEnormousVulnerabilityRelativeHand In HandSocial Equality Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“When you choose a language, youre also choosing a community. The programmers youll be able to hire to work on a Java project wont be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages.” ShouldMatterFactsAbleLanguageCommunityQualityWrittenProjectsSmartMeritRelativeYou ChooseProgrammersHackersJavaPython Author:Philip Greenspun