“A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.” IdeasMightPiecesTheoryProveHundredTestsValuableBeing True Book:The Light of Other Days Source: The Light of Other Days
“For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.” MenHumansChildrenEndsHelpingMightOrderTurnsGrowthCommunityHuman BeingsPiecesProduceGoes OnValuableUselessAccomplishmentLastingDefiniteSequenceBeing MeHinderProcreation Book:Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925 Source: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925
“The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections are your guides - valuable, objective, non-judgmental guides to matters you need to reconsider or develop further.” NeedsMatterLyingNextPiecesCurrentsValuableSeedsGuidesObjectivesImperfectionJudgmentalEmbeddedArtworkNon Judgmental Author:David Bayles
“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.” PeopleIfsShouldLongStillsEndsUseWaitingPiecesFailingJourneyInformationQuietTravelTrainValuablePracticalsNervousGlancesImpatientArrivalsRailroadsConductorPacing Author:Anna Brackett
“People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.” PeopleTryingPersonsPiecesBuildingValuableSoftwareSingle Person Author:Bill Gates