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thinking being-a-woman prove
I don’t think of myself as being a woman and having anything to prove, Eileen collins
two goal nuclear
Losing more of our existing nuclear fleet will make it that much tougher to meet our carbon reduction goals. We need to keep ramping up renewables, but they can't meet our need for reliable power 24/7. Nuclear is a baseload source and it's carbon-free - two things we need. Eileen Claussen
target developing nations
Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.
thinking doe breathe
I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that? Egon Schiele
thinking israel violent
I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it. Ehud Olmert
thinking israel differences
Who thinks seriously that if we sit on another hilltop, on another hundred meters, that this is what will make the difference for the state of Israel's basic security?
tired fighting winning
We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.
thinking iran dangerous
I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.
tired sometimes reason
I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.
true-joy giving goes-on
You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost. Eileen Caddy
trying looks difficult
To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen. Eduardo Chillida
tchaikovsky giving ears
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. Eduard Hanslick
taste
I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it. Edvard Grieg
two three six-months
But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most. Eduard Shevardnadze
thinking way bloodshed
I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
tired blood fjords
I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous infinite scream of nature. Edvard Munch
thinking order people
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.
talent exceed
My will exceeds my talents.
today bugs sticks
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included. Edsger Dijkstra
thinking profound tools
The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
thinking progress pieces
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
technology thinking swim
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
teaching joy use
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
thinking naive
Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.
trying helping should
In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.
technology hands two
When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned that I had been the Department's third choice, after two numerical analysts had turned the invitation down; the decision to invite me had not been an easy one, on the one hand because I had not really studied mathematics, and on the other hand because of my sandals, my beard and my "arrogance" (whatever that may be).
teamwork people may
In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork". For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit". Very.
teaching recovery college
I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.
technology people today
Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.
thinking profound tools
A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.
telescopes computer astronomy
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.
trying quality routine
Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.
tools use telescopes
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.