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“In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.”

“The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.”

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Book:A pocketful of pebbles

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.”

Soul Hard Facts Together Ordinary Consequence Importance Presses Crowds Narrative Length Thread Pauses Continuity

Book:The street of crocodiles and other stories

Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories

“For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.”

People Matter Photography Ordinary Importance Specialness

Author:Rineke Dijkstra

“In the texts, and as His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we should check the person's behavior not when they're sitting on a big throne, but behind the scenes. How do they treat ordinary people - not the big sponsors - but just ordinary people who are of no particular importance to them.”

People Should Persons Bigs Behinds Particular Scene Behavior Ordinary Sitting Treats Importance Checks Holiness Thrones Ordinary People Behind The Scenes Sponsors Lama Dalai

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

Soul Home Might Practice Habit Ordinary Importance Aging Simplicity Simple Life Simple Living Living A Simple Life

Author:Thomas Moore

“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.”

Men Way Dream Memories Events Ordinary Importance Wake Up Waking Amazed Observers Small Dreams Credence Man Of My Dreams

Author:Andre Breton

“It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your “I” is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary “I.” No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever.”

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Author:Richard Rohr

“The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.”

Trying Shows Spirit Prayer Humility Prove Ordinary Tests Eternity Importance Daily Life Discipleship

Book:Humility: The Beauty of Holiness

Source: Humility: The Beauty of Holiness

“These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of the fuselage as though no walls were there. At times, voices come out of the air itself, clear yet far away, traveling through distances that can't be measured by the scale of human miles; familiar voices, conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.”