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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
engineers needs scientists ultimately
Ultimately Halcyon needs the greatest scientists and engineers in the world to succeed in its mission. Luke Nosek
engineers improve microsoft plan presented professor proposed work
The only plan professor Barrett has presented was in January, when he proposed that he work with Microsoft engineers to improve the documentation.
engineers founders
Many of those founders were not only engineers but immigrants. Carl Guardino
engineers level none scale
None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs.
engineers equipment mention pakistan send soon sort winter
He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.
engineers humbled naturally perfect respect science stuff system technology treated
Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect. Henry Petroski
engineers favorite moving nobody organized people phenomenon start walking
The phenomenon was that people who were walking at random, at their own favorite speed, not organized in any way, spontaneously synchronized, ... That's the phenomenon. Why did they all start moving in step? They did it unconsciously. That is what nobody had thought about and engineers did not anticipate. Steven Strogatz
engineers fifteen huge seems
Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me. We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful.
engineers fifteen huge seems
Fifteen seconds, seems huge to me, ... We have engineers who say, if you could give me 100 nanoseconds, it would be useful.