Learning Quotes - Page 25

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that in his young manhood he thought "science was more important than either man or God," and that "without a highly developed science modern man lacks the power to survive," . . . went to Germany after the war to see what Allied bombing had done to the Germans, who had been leaders in science. There, he says, "I learned that if his civilization is to continue, modern man must direct the material power of his science by the spiritual truths of his God."

By seeking and blundering we learn.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."