Quotes about learning
learning simple simplicity
And simple truth miscalled simplicity William Shakespeare
learning
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
learning looking opportunity related
We were looking for a learning opportunity ... related to science.
learning
It embarrassed me into learning how to get the signs, Dusty Baker
learning matter size time worry
It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy. Aubrey Peeples
learning school mean
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact. John Dewey
learning fighting simple
The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other. John Carmack
learning imagination creative
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination. John Backus
learning
To learn is to change. George Leonard
learning educated knows
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know. Georg Simmel
learning land house
Learning is better worth than houses or land. George Crabbe
learning writing men
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure." Khalil Gibran
learning ends programming
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.
learning talking
You aren't learning anything when you're talking. Lyndon B. Johnson
learning people watches
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. Lord Chesterfield
learning heart ignorance
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well on the nature of man; will profoundly analyse the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man.... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.
learning simple programming
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. Maimonides
learning men wife
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
learning tests certainty
Certitude is not the test of certainty. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
learning bugs problem
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone). Eric S. Raymond
learning giving credit
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. Epictetus
learning forgotten pleasure
What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
learning long young
You can stay young as long as you learn. Emily Dickinson
learning thinking order
In order to be big, you have to think big. If you think small, you're going to be small. Emeril Lagasse
learning degrees kind
But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach". Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
learning fire brain
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
learning golf games
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes. Hayley Mills
learning men trying
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying. Herodotus
learning things-in-life mind
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford
learning people use
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people. Henry Ward Beecher
learning ideas force
Ideas are, in truth, force. Henry James
learning men
A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
learning men trying
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.