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Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.
Interview from Programmers at Work -
Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) -
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
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Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
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Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
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Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience.
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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
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She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.
Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 407) -
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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