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“You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.”

Life May Two Moving Games Learning Down And Surrender One Time

Author:Leo Rosten

“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.”

Men Life Doe Real States Whole Differences Learning Trouble Performances Difficulty Average Kicks Bowls Pins Differentiate Irritation Average Man Mules

Author:Herbert Newton Casson

“There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.”

Life May Stills Matter Hard Care Learning Hard Work Genius No Matter What Who You Are Cherish Worthwhile Righteous I Care Earning Royal Deserving Righteous Living

Author:J. Reuben Clark

“The first recorded instruction given to Adam after the Fall dealt with the eternal principle of work. The Lord said: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." (Gen. 3:19.) Our Heavenly Father loves us so completely that he has given us a commandment to work. This is one of the keys to eternal life. He knows that we will learn more, grow more, achieve more, serve more, and benefit more from a life of industry than from a life of ease.”

“Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.”

“Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.”

Life Firsts Wells Language Learning Command Literacy Components Learning English

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.”

Ifs Knows Life Giving Mean Doe Ends Light Knowledge Learning Degrees Capacity Management Lenses Transparency Beam

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.”

Life Mean Doe Self Form Desire Suffering Causes Compassion Learning Brother Illusion Equality Breathing Separateness Unawareness

Author:Christmas Humphreys

“All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.”

Life Writing Trying Years Firsts Has Beens Stills Novel Learning Five Months Five Years Sixty Lacking Seekers

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us. Our debt will have been paid in full by the only perfect pure person who ever lived.”

Life Persons Has Beens Seems Order Justice Perfect Learning Pure Paid Property Debt Agents Posts Collections Adversaries Atonement Invoke Paid In Full

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.”

Knows Life Doe Grows Understanding Learning Taught Hearing Instruction Life Wisdom Unwritten Great Experiences

Author:Anthony Hope

“Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.”

Life Self Facts Accepting Learning Imagine Easier Chosen Shock Restriction

Book:HOUR OF GOLD HOUR OF LEAD

Source: HOUR OF GOLD HOUR OF LEAD

“I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.”

“Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.”

World Should Home Hands Young Forget Boys Learning Wise Son Fool Paid Fancy Each Day Ems Governors Recalls Parting Being Wise My Boys Rams Disregarded Parting Words

Author:Robert Baden-Powell

“St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.”

Ifs Humor Funny Dies Learning Garden Sunset Before Sunset St Francis Of Assisi

Author:Francis of Assisi

“We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else”

Inspirational Reading Education Teach Learning Seeing Experience Hearing Life Experience Human Experience Psychiatrist Discussing Teaching Children

Author:William Glasser

“The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology-the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects.”

Thinking Way Might Views Learning Study Taken Subjects Revolution Computer Essence Structure Point Of View Mathematical Programming Imperatives Emergence Epistemology

Author:Hal Abelson

“We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that a complex system should be structured as a sequence of levels that are described using a sequence of languages. Each level is constructed by combining parts that are regarded as primitive at that level, and the parts constructed at each level are used as primitives at the next level. The language used at each level of a stratified design has primitives, means of combination, and means of abstraction appropriate to that level of detail.”

“Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.”

Problem Learning Computer Creating Models Solve Technique Programming Appropriate Abstraction Computer Programming Computer Science Devising

Author:Alfred Aho

“Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it in the same way twice.”

Way Use Problem Millions Learning Environment Solutions Patterns Core Programming Our Environment

Author:Caroline Alexander

“I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.”

Ifs Imagination Creative Learning Failing I've Learned Programming Be You Stretching Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Author:John Backus

“I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.”

“The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.”

Knows Able School Learning Teaching Students Programming Something New Sole Justification Something Better Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?”

Thinking Trying Believe Learning Teacher Programming

Author:Anthony Bennett

“Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.”

Learning Scientist Programming Engineers Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Author:Fred Brooks

“The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.”

Facts Learning Building Program Tasks Essence Hardest Programming Consistent Software Arriving Software Engineering Specifications Debugging

Author:Fred Brooks

“Successful software always gets changed.”

Learning Successful Changed Programming Software Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Author:Fred Brooks

“The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.”

“In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, the ones that lead you in interesting directions, the ones that connect with lots of other interesting questions -the ones with beautiful answers.”

Way Giving Art Beautiful Answers Interesting Learning Asking Insight Math Mathematical Programming Right Questions Asking The Right Questions

Author:Gregory Chaitin

“The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.”

World Real Language Behinds Consciousness Technology Learning Programming Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Author:Andrei Codrescu

“Question authority; but, raise your hand first.”

Firsts Hands Learning Authority Raises Programming Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Book:Chutzpah

Source: Chutzpah

“A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.... A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.”

Ifs Thinking Important Use Language Learning Influence Habit Aspect Tools Train Profound Programming Elusive Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Book:A Discipline of Programming

Source: A Discipline of Programming

“John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.”

Way Simple Attention Learning Easier Draws Complicated Programming Mechanism Contrast Von Neumann

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.”

Should Reason Process Space Learning Wise Masters Intellectual Program Relation Spread Limitation Evolve Programming Gaps Programmers Static Correspondence

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.”

Thinking Mean Use Choices Teach Learning Particular Habit Shapes Tools Careful Programming

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems.”

“Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.”

“The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].”

Firsts Steps Learning Failing Example Broken Program Programming First Steps Simplest Fixing Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Author:Tom Duff

“The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.”

Matter Speak Ability Learning Complexes Proof Programming Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Ability To Speak

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing had made exchanging software trivial: you just stored one copy in the public repository and therby effectively gave it to the world. Immediately people began to document their programs and to think of them as being usable by others. They started to build on each other's work.”

People Thinking World Made Use Learning Program Programming Copies Software Documents Programmers Computer Programming Programming Languages Processing Computer Language Exchanging

Author:Robert Fano

“The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.”

Problem Language Learning Clear Programming Precise

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.”

Way Done Problem Bigs Imagination Simple Learning Persistence Programming Quantum Big Things

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"”

Knows Want Matter Form Universe Dark Learning Students Compromise Candidates Programming Bias Particles Turner Dark Matter

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.”

“Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.”

Knows Beautiful Learning Programming Programmers

Author:David Gelernter

“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.”

“Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.”

Ends Learning All Things Programming Vague Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.”

Humans Two Learning Source Computer Blame Errors Programming Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Human Error

Author:Tom Gilb

“This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.”

Doe Attitude Learning Objects Mathematics Method Following Mathematical Abstract Programming Slogans

Author:Timothy Gowers

“Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.”

Source: Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science

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