#quotes — Public Fediverse posts
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can't fight the moonlight 🌙🫦
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Representation is the essence of programming.
-- Fred Brooks (The Mythical Man-Month) -
AI: Pauperism refers to the state of being extremely poor, particularly a chronic or systemic condition of poverty that leaves a person dependent on charity or public relief to survive.
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At every major step, physics has required, and frequently stimulated, the introduction of new mathematical tools and concepts. Our present understanding of the laws of physics, with their extreme precision and universality, is only possible in mathematical terms.
—Sir Michael Atiyah -
We've been captured by scarcity mentalities for too long. I have a different message: Find what you want to do...and chill the F out and do it at your own pace...
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No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.
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One learns not by a photographic copying of things shown, but by an internal drama imitative of the action witnessed. When the instructor gropes for a word, corrects himself, interjects a comment or an analogy not directly called for, he gives a spectacle of man thinking which no slick film or televised show will provide.
-- Jacques Barzun -
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.”
— John Green -
Hanging around is another thing tortoises are very good at. They’re practically world champions. (Small Gods)
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: (watching TV) Why isn’t my life like this situation comedy? Why don’t I have a bunch of friends with nothing to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren’t my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don’t my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well-being when I have problems?
HOBBES: Why don’t you know any gorgeous babes?
CALVIN: I gotta get my life some writers.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-11-03)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/85505…
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
FOE, n. A person instigated by his wicked nature to deny one’s merits or exhibit superior merits of his own.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) American writer and journalist
“Foe,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-12-06)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/85503…
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The female among all the orders of life, man included, represents a higher stage of development than the male.
-- Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman (Preface), 1894)
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<<No pretendo el abrazo incondicional de las masas, solo dejar de huir a lomos de una bestia moribunda a punto de ser abatida por la tristeza.>>
Alana S. Portero, La habitación de las ahogadas, parte 1: La diosa y la polilla, extracto del texto XIV.
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When your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.
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If you can listen to everything, you may end up hearing nothing.
-- Bernard Holland -
Wine is very life to humans
if taken in moderation.
What is life to one who is without wine?
It has been created to make people happy.
Wine drunk at the proper time and in moderation
is rejoicing of heart and gladness of soul.
[ἔφισον ζωῆς οἶνος ἀνθρώποις,
ἐὰν πίνῃς αὐτὸν ἐν μέτρῳ αὐτοῦ.
τίς ζωὴ ἐλασσουμένῳ οἴνῳ;
καὶ αὐτὸς ἔκτισται εἰς εὐφροσύνην ἀνθρώποις.
ἀγαλλίαμα καρδίας καὶ εὐφροσύνη ψυχῆς
οἶνος πινόμενος ἐν καιρῷ αὐτάρκης·]The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 31:27ff (Sir 31:27–28) [tr. NRSV (2021 ed.)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/85500/
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It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as ‘slightly foxed’, although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.
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She was mostly immensely relieved to think that virtually everything that anybody had ever told her was wrong.
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To delight in reading is to trade life’s dreary moments for moments of pure joy.
[Aimer à lire, c’est faire un échange des heures d’ennui que l’lon doit avoir en sa vie contre des heures délicieuses.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689–1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 1632 / 1143 (1720-1755) [ed. Guterman (1963)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/78314/
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Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
Bhartṛhari
