“I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.” PeopleKnowsMayEnoughWould BeLyingRealizingPlanetsSkillsSmartFemaleTendenciesProgrammersBiased Author:Erik Naggum
“How long will it be 'till we've turned To the tasks and the skills That we'll have to have learned If we're going to find our place in the future And have something to offer Where this planet's concerned?” IfsLongPlanetsOffersSkillsConcernedTasks Author:Jackson Browne
“I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.” PeopleGivingFactsSongNextSpeakBitsAbilityNumbersAudienceFocusStreetsStupidPlanetsSkillsOrdinaryGive MeSettingSettingsAcquireConcentrationRealisingPausesKeyboardsDisillusionNew SkillsAbility To Speak Author:Susan Schneider
“For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.” LooksHeartFoundHeavenStarsLordPathPlanetsProudSkillsDrawsRegardHumbleSandGrainCrushedLoftyAfarGrains Of SandExpanseInquisitive Book:The Confessions Source: The Confessions
“If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity” IfsThinkingAbilityPlanetsNeededSkillsCriticalObjectivityCritical ThinkingLife Skills Book:Come Unto These Yellow Sands Source: Come Unto These Yellow Sands
“My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain... For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.” MindLooksLongArtHandsLyingImaginationPlanetsSkillsEmbraceMortalsVainTouchedHorizonInfinityMasteryComprehensionFaust Author:Susan Kay
“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.” YearsMindTwoWarEndsEasyAbilityConsciousnessVisionPlanetsSkillsDiseaseBehaviorIntellectualCrisisHungryCuresTwo ThingsEngineeringTechnologicalOur PlanetConditioningMind BlowingBad BehaviorAbility To ChangeBlowing ItSave Our Planet Author:Terence McKenna