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The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
-- R. W. Hamming

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By "educated" I would mean what Jefferson meant...having read the major works of literature, having an understanding of the broad periods of history into which the world's past is divided, perhaps speaking another language or at least being aware of other languages and having some competence. But I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
-- John Keegan

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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
-- Peter Drucker

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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
-- Zig Ziglar

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Broad, wholesome, charitable views... can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.
-- Mark Twain

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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
-- George Santayana

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I define legacy system as any system that's been up long enough to work.
-- Clement McDonald

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If one has talent it pushes for utterance and torments one; it will out....There is nothing in this thing of learning out of books. Here, here and here [the ear, the head, the heart] is your school. If everything is right there, then take your pen and down with it; afterwards ask the opinion of a man who knows his business.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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It is almost always possible to present an intellectually honest and engaging account of any field, using a minimum of technical apparatus. This is seldom done, however, since most priesthoods are inclined to hide behind a wall of mystery and to commune only with their fellow priests.
-- John Allen Paulos

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#Composting program to provide #Everglades with soil for #CommunityGarden

by Martin Vassolo, March 12, 2025

"Your #FoodScraps could be used to help support the Everglades through a new partnership between the village of #PinecrestFL and the #MiccosukeeTribe.

"Instead of dumping #FoodWaste into crowded #landfills, which produce #methane emissions, the #EvergladesEarthCycleProject will expand Pinecrest's residential composting program and deliver nutrient-rich soil to the #Miccosukee Tribe.

"Driving the news: The project, funded with a $400,000 federal grant and other contributions, calls for installing four new #CompostingBins in Pinecrest and three around #MiamiDade County District 7.

"The initial phase of the program will supply compost to the #SwampyMeadows #CommunityGarden, which grows vegetables just outside the Miccosukee Indian School.

"Another proposal that's been floated is adding new soil to the Everglades' tree islands, though that would need tribal approval, says the Rev. Houston R. Cypress of the #LoveTheEverglades Movement, a partner in the program.

"Cypress told reporters on an airboat ride through the Everglades last week that the tribe teaches 'the essence of being in harmony with nature is giving back to it.'

"'With the Everglades Earth Cycle Project, we're giving back clean and healthy soil; we're giving products that might eventually improve the water quality out here, but we're also giving directly back to local indigenous communities here,' he said.

"Pinecrest already has two free public composting bins, one at the Pinecrest Public Library and another between the Community Center and Pinecrest Gardens."

https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2025/03/12/everglades-composting-pinecrest-miccosukee

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
-- Roland Barthes

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What is adolescence but the reducing of the world to a manageable idea that you can share safely with others.
-- Alec Wilkinson (New Yorker (April 28, 2014))

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Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
-- Diane Ackerman

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
-- Lou Holtz

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I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
-- Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

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Popular theology ... is a massive inconsistency derived from ignorance.... The gods exist because nature herself has imprinted a conception of them on the minds of men.
-- Cicero

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No young man should go into politics if he wants to get rich or if he expects an adequate reward for his services. An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.
-- Harry S. Truman (Diary, April 24, 1954)

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The diagnosis helps the doctor, the story helps the patient.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

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Be confident, not certain.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules.
-- Frank Zappa

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Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
-- Norman Borlaug

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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
-- Stephen Jay Gould

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I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the 'growing edge'; the belief that only the very frontier of scientific advance counted; that everything that had been left behind by that advance was faded and dead.
-- Isaac Asimov

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Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-- Bertrand Russell

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
-- William Butler Yeats

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-- Marie Skłodowska Curie

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If you wish to gain knowledge of the forms of things, begin with the detail and only move from one detail to another when you have fixed the first firmly in your memory and become well acquainted with it.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

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