“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.” IfsKnowsLifeGivingMeanDoeEndsLightKnowledgeLearningDegreesCapacityManagementLensesTransparencyBeam Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“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.” KnowsLifeDoeGrowsUnderstandingLearningTaughtHearingInstructionLife WisdomUnwrittenGreat Experiences Author:Anthony Hope
“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.” KnowsMenLifeMindMeanCausesChallengesLearningStreetsProduceSourceVictoryWeaknessOvercomingAdversityDevotionConquerThings In LifeVeinsStatuesReally MeanFablesVikingsNorwaySource Of Strength Author:Alvin R. Dyer
“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.” KnowsAbleSchoolLearningTeachingStudentsProgrammingSomething NewSoleJustificationSomething BetterComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer Language Author:Jacques Barzun
“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!"” KnowsWantMatterFormUniverseDarkLearningStudentsCompromiseCandidatesProgrammingBiasParticlesTurnerDark Matter Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.” KnowsBeautifulLearningProgrammingProgrammers Author:David Gelernter
“You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.” ThinkingKnowsWritingCertainTeachLearningProgramProgrammingProgramming LanguagesYou Think You KnowSoftware Design Author:Alan Perlis
“Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.” PeopleKnowsLearningStudyCostPerformancesComplainingReleaseProgrammingSoftwareUsersBugsMicrosoftCheaper Author:Bruce Schneier
“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.” KnowsWorldDifficultBusinessLearningLessonsAmbitionFoolishRivalsThyselfFrogsKnow ThyselfSwelling Book:Don Quixote Source: Don Quixote
“Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.” KnowsTimeLearningJourneyReadyWoodsNow And Then Author:Stephen Sondheim