#lava-flow — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lava-flow, aggregated by home.social.
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry S. Truman -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-- Samuel Johnson (1775) -
If a system has to be explained to people, that's a clue that its design is driven by what you "know" rather than by what people immediately recognize as useful.
-- Peter Coffee (eWeek (May 2005)) -
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly -- or it vanishes.
-- Peter Drucker -
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
-- Jonathan Swift -
We can still read words on papyrus; we don't know how long it will be possible to read a text inscribed in a 2004 CD. This is not a complaint, just a reminder.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HJacksonBrownJr #Opportunity #Life #Success
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
-- Peter Drucker -
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
-- Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle) -
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RainerMariaRilke #Answers #Life #Questions
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
-- Thomas H. Huxley -
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
-- Umberto Eco -
Kīpuka == clearing in a lava flow where original vegetation grows.
#hawaiianWordOfTheDay #lavaFlow #volcano #lava #learnHawaiian #hawaiian -
Donald Trump is the Payload of a Russian Cyberweapon.
-- Timothy Snyder (The Road to Unfreedom) -
The remains of flowing lava, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon
#Photography #LavaFlow #BasaltColumn #PictureGorge #JohnDayOregon #Oregon -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #UptonSinclair #Employment #Ignorance #Knowledge #Understanding
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei -
The goal of security systems is the most security for the least amount of trade-offs. The way to do that is to make the party who is best able to mitigate the risk responsible for the risk.
-- Bruce Schneier -
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MartinLutherKingJr #Science #Spirituality
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The greatest impact of computers on the availability of information lies not in their power to manipulate it and to distribute it but in the ease with which they enable it to be gathered.
-- John Browning -
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
-- Robert Browning⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertBrowning #Ignorance #Innocence #Sin
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
-- Yogi Berra -
Things equal out pretty well. Our dreams seldom come true, but then neither do our nightmares.
-- Charles Kennedy -
A solution for one problem, if left in place long enough, becomes the root of another.
-- Anonymous⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Anonymous #Computers #Problems #Solutions
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I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
-- Miles Davis -
Love is not kindly nor yet grim / But does to you as you to him.
-- Robert Graves -
People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.
-- Roger Ailes (Founder of FOX News) -
Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing.
-- Murray Bookchin (What is Social Ecology?) -
When action becomes unprofitable, gather information. When information becomes unprofitable, sleep.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin (The Left Hand of Darkness) -
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
-- Stephen Hawking