Learning Quotes - Page 49

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.

Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

Setbacks are just learning experiences.

A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.

When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes

What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.