Learning Quotes - Page 70

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

We learned early on that if we help enough people, the money will come.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.

One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code.

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

I worked for Harper’s Bazaar. They fired me. I recommend that you all get fired; it’s a great learning experience.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Every learner has special needs.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

There is no time of life past learning something.

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.