Learning Quotes - Page 66

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.

All learning is derived from things previously known.

Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?

Everything is a learning experience.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

Any noun can be verbed.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.