Quotes by Learning In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again. Alvin Toffler illiterate-person learning writing When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness. Amari Cooper design learning confusion The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself. Amari Cooper programming learning giving REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. Ambrose Bierce popular-vote learning law PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn. Ambrose Bierce learning fashion feelings MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn. Ambrose Bierce subjects learning persons R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis". Ambrose Bierce drs learning pace There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. Ambrose Bierce old-things learning science Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense. Ambrose Bierce learning ignorance race There is no time of life past learning something. Ambrose learning past Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. Amiri Baraka learning understanding art More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. Amy Grant learning dream laughing If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see. Amy Grant learning night believe The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship. Amy Van Dyken failure learning sports An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Anatole France learning education memories It's not by amusing oneself that one learns. Anatole France amusing oneself learning The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others. Anatoly Karpov learning pace ordinary Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime. Andre Braugher cop logistics learning Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Andre Gide learning communication knowledge Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. Andre Maurois learning freedom simple «1234567891011»
