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“There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.”

Mean Turns Choices Simple Highest Connections Investment Outcomes Publication Prescriptions Geometric Wagers Deep Connections

Author:William Poundstone

“It is essential that in a society, divine thoughts and power should co-exist. Simple Faith, not backed by material forces, is weak and Strength without touch of Divinity is monstrous.”

Should Faith Force Simple Divine Materials Essentials Weak Divinity Monstrous Simple Faith

Author:Pandurang Shastri Athavale

“Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.”

Art Stories Order Imagination Simple Answers Creativity Infinite Creator Makers Obsolete Flexing

Book:The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

Source: The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

“The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.”

Knows Mean Simple Love Is Knowledge Capacity Roots Wake Up Buddha Nature

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?”

Law Simple Answers Tests Lawyer Why Not Expanding Pragmatic

Book:Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

Source: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

“In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.”

Heart Feelings Nature Simple Paper Hundred Stronger Narrative Composer Vivid Folds Grandeur Ecstatic

Book:A Hero of Our Time

Source: A Hero of Our Time

“PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?”

Want Doe Use Jobs Simple Tools Exciting Toothbrushes

Author:Rasmus Lerdorf

“I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.”

Problem Simple Tools Solve

Author:Rasmus Lerdorf

“The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although the basic laws of physics are comparatively simple in form, they give rise, because they are computationally universal, to systems of enormous complexity.”

Giving Form Law Universe Simple Consequence Universal Complexes Physics Enormous Primaries Complexity Laws Of Physics Complex Systems

Author:Seth Lloyd

“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.”

Ifs World Problem Social Simple Economic Treats Infinite Complexes Arise Psychological Finite Persistent Ecological Economic Systems Interconnected Mismatch

Author:Donella Meadows

“C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.”

Enough Helping Use Language Simple Direct Spots Programming Constructs Programming Languages Inconvenient

Author:Linus Torvalds

“While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car. Pull over to the side of the road to dial manually, know the features and functions of your phone before you drive and allow voice mail to pick up your calls if you are driving - these are all simple and commonsensical steps we can all take to minimize distraction from in-car cell phone use.”

Ifs Knows Helping Use Sides Voice Simple Common Steps Car Picks Function Phones Driving Common Sense Cells Features Drivers Distraction Mail Items Cell Phone Embedded Accessories

Author:Gary Shapiro

“Coffee has assumed a social meaning that goes far beyond the simple black brew in the cup. The worldwide coffee culture is more than a culture - it is a cult. There are usenet newsgroups on the subject, along with innumerable sites on the World Wide Web, and Starbucks outlets populate every street corner, vying for space with other coffeehouses and chains. And after all is said and done, it's just the pit of a berry from an Ethiopian shrub.”

“The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.”

Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

“Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.”

People Done Use Simple Break Latter Things Done

Book:Jennifer Government: A Novel

Source: Jennifer Government: A Novel

“Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.”

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.”

War Simple Students Taught Notion Myth Peaceful Savages Anthropologists

Author:Lloyd deMause

“It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.”

Source: The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power

“The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.”

Facts Moving Winning Simple Quality Window Vices Obvious Code Fixed Platforms Bugs Vice Versa Port Gamer Linux Code Quality

Author:Ryan C. Gordon

“The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.”

War Used Chance Simple Cold Stronger Nuclear Bombs Cold War Emerging Proliferation Nuclear Bomb Nuclear Proliferation

Author:Johann Hari

“The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects.”

Writing Believe Has Beens Important Use Simple Teaching Subjects Tools Remains Wide Developing Range Motive Programming Precise Initials

Author:Kenneth E. Iverson

“Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.”

Years Firsts Earth Form Simple Records Surface Billions Organisms Fossils Ladders Living Organisms

Book:White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars

Source: White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars

“See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.”

Ifs Men Mean Would Be Suffering Simple Poor Kindness Destruction Monsters Bread Generosity Buying Avoided Acts Of Kindness Alleviate Wholesale Working Women Simple Acts Of Kindness

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“I have a very simple question to people who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. (In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.)”

People Persons Seems Suffering Three Names Simple Answers Cases Fields Please Capable Honestly Narcissism Smarter

Author:Ingo Molnar

“Certainly it is permitted to anyone to put forward whatever hypotheses he wishes, and to develop the logical consequences contained in those hypotheses. But in order that this work merit the name of Geometry, it is necessary that these hypotheses or postulates express the result of the more simple and elementary observations of physical figures.”

Order Names Wish Simple Results Figures Consequence Observation Merit Logical Hypothesis Geometry

Author:Giuseppe Peano

“If you feel sincerely sorry on account of your sins, and believe that Christ is able and willing to forgive you, the work is done. You may trust with all the confidence of a child who confesses his fault, and casts himself into his father's arms. This is faith; a simple trust in the power and willingness of the Father to forgive, for the sake of what Christ the Son has done.”

Ifs Feels Believe May Children Done Able Father Christ Sin Simple Willing Son Arms Accounts Forgiving Faults Sorry Sake Casts Willingness Sincerely

Author:Samuel I. Prime

“Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.”

Simple Perfect Brain Enemy Nervous Compromise Target Host Uniforms Lacking Nervous System Robust Parasites Central Nervous System Replication

Book:Daemon

Source: Daemon

“The lack of brotherhood among believers themselves has paralyzed the church in front of the skepticism and immorality of the world; but when we go back in simple faith to the one great fact of our redemption, we shall be both brought into closer fellowship with each other, and stimulated to more tender regard for the salvation of men.”

Men World Facts Church Simple Fronts Regard Salvation Believer Redemption Brotherhood Skepticism Fellowship Immorality Paralyzed Simple Faith

Author:William Mackergo Taylor

“People aren't very good listeners, by nature. Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.”

People Ifs Trying Ideas Done Moments Jobs Remember Understanding Simple Concepts Complexes Very Good Capture Listeners Recognizing Few Words Communicators Good Listener

Author:Mike Tomlin

“Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.”

Stories Remember Chance Simple College Consequence Decided Versions Crafts Tonight More Time Yale Simple Words

Author:Phil Vischer

“To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.”

Ifs Giving Running Romance Order House Simple Pay Like You Members Clean Gym Crap Jerk Keep It Simple

Author:Joe Gold

“I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence - we are, each and every one of us - the being called Mercy.”

Humans Matter Simple Existence Compassion Sea Mercy Profound Reach Out Simplest Insignificant Decency

Author:J. M. DeMatteis

“Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.”

“The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?”

Humans Doe Values Simple Moral Century Depends Morality Equal Profound Human Life 21st Century Moral Values

Author:Wesley J. Smith

“Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.”

Humans Simple Economy Taste Office Aim Devotion Sacraments Prudence

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.”

Children Enough Easy Simple

Author:Albert Camus

“The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again.”

Character Lines Simple Tree Feet Plot Plot Lines

Book:Guide to writing for children

Source: Guide to writing for children

“If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.”

Ifs Simple Illusion Hundred Details Theme Actuality

Author:Satyajit Ray

“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.”

“Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex”

Ideas Simple Genius Complexes Simple Ideas

Author:Albert Einstein

“This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.”

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.”

“Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.”

Knows Want Heart Simple One Thing Communicate Listeners Simple Truths Lodges

Book:Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication

Source: Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication

“I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide”

Has Beens Enough Simple Gone Balls Wide

Author:Lewis Carroll

“Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.”

Simple Clear Focus Quiet Reflection Faithful Reminders Simple Things Annuals Quiet Reflection

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive.”

Knows Ideas Moments Reality Simple Alive That Moment Grabbing Simple Ideas

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“A simple rule applies: if you don't quickly comprehend what a company is doing, then management probably doesn't either.”

Ifs Simple Company Management

Author:Seth Klarman

“The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.”

Ifs Needs Reason Suffering Water Simple Technique Unnecessary Emphasis Shamanism Deep Water Unnecessary Suffering

Author:Terence McKenna

“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.”

Natural Simple Acting Stage

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

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