A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.

Author: Ellen Ullman

Author: Ellen Ullman

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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to

Author: Saint Augustine
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra

Author: Victor Hugo
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The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love an

Author: Richard Rohr
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My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

Author: Georgette Heyer
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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating ex

Author: Kathe Kollwitz
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A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Author: Dr. Seuss
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Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter

Author: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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All of sudden I cared what someone thought of me. Because we are friends. And making you miserable a

Author: Rachel E. Carter
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If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or repl

Author: Jan C. Ting
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One of man's greatest obligations is anger.

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
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...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition

Author: Dean Koontz
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Nico clenched his sword. Sharing his secret crush hadn’t been the worst of it. Eventually he might h

Author: Rick Riordan
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Women are like a living, breathing casinoLike a judge and juryThey sense everythingThey sense what y

Author: Robert Black
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There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a

Author: Kate Griffin
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary th

Author: Maria Montessori
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April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring

Author: T. S. Eliot
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Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely ident

Author: Terry Teachout
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I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had c

Author: Gwenda Bond
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Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addresse

Author: Elisabeth Elliot
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A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night

Author: Marilyn Monroe
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Don't measure the size of the mountain talk to the One who can move it.

Author: Max Lucado
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It's either true or it's not.

Author: Marie Bannon
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We quenched the bulging flame, amongst the ashes embers of fire remain

Author: Mie Hansson
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May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous wo

Author: Mary MacLane
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No longer bound by fear, how high can we soar? How deep can we dive? How much delight can we experie

Author: Stasi Eldredge
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Sensitive," I tried.Sam translated: "Squishy.""Creative.""Dangerously emo.""Thoughtful.""Feng shui."

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
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I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists be

Author: Haruki Murakami
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Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

Author: Jamie Moyer
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I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensi

Author: John Lydon
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The scenic route was a paved graveyard of dreams, but Fillion hoped his would rise from the ashes, m

Author: Jesikah Sundin
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If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves

Author: Lysander Spooner
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She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go o

Author: Chris Manby
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'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardic

Author: Molly Ivins
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Do your best in the day, for the day, and then work on tomorrow when it comes. Show yourself grace a

Author: Amber Hurdle
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It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds

Author: Paul Rusesabagina
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Successs is like ur own shadow! If u try 2 catch then u ll never succeed, but ignore it & walk in ur

Author: Frank Asah
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It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

Author: James Jones
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It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character!

Author: Agatha Christie
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Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

Author: Jamie Oliver
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There is no right

Author: Unknown
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If birds sing without worrying about who is listening to them, and monkeys dance without worrying ab

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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I know I do everything. I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived

Author: Tove Jansson
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If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss fro

Author: Peter Watts
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I laugh at myself. It's so important to laugh at yourself. Have a little heart chuckle, cry a few te

Author: Akiroq Brost
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Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the pa

Author: Unknown
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Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; h

Author: Kate Chopin
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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Author: David Lloyd George
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I hate when I break my own rules. What’s the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clo

Author: Jesse Ball
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There is a kidney-shaped fish pool outside the picture window. I cleaned it out and put in some larg

Author: William S. Burroughs
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At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots don

Author: John Sarbanes
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It's true that we don't handle things or we don't know about the future but to prepare our life in t

Author: Jayson Zabate
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It hurts to see your loved one in pain, but it hurts more to see you cannot do anything about this p

Author: Namrata
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Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Author: Charlotte Brontë
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart.

Author: Nadège Richards
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Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station

Author: Tim Allen
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I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant.

Author: Michelle Tea
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To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

Author: Ray Harryhausen
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Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this moti

Author: Erik Valeur
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The future is in the skies.

Author: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his

Author: Martin Luther
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On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert powe

Author: Frank Herbert
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The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creato

Author: Bryant McGill
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We live in a hypocrite and confused world.You will get answer to the questions you don't seek.

Author: Sachin Panwar
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Author: Helen Keller
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... rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,...

Author: Marcel Proust
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Staying more controlled mentally stemmed from taking my fitness more seriously. When you're doing tr

Author: Andy Murray
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It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And kn

Author: Bernadette Peters
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The time when most of all you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crow

Author: Epicurus
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I didn't give you this life, honey. They took to you because of who you are. You gave yourself this

Author: David Isay
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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

Author: Jalaluddin Rumi
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She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the groun

Author: Richard Ronald Allan
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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

Author: Markus Zusak
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I didn't hurt anymore, didn't feel like hiding anymore, wasn't scared anymore. Because I wasn't anyt

Author: David James Duncan
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If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.

Author: S.A. Tawks
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Buying & selling is not a process, but a story, the base of this story is “need”. Need arising out o

Author: Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
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Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstint

Author: Derrick Jensen
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All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anythin

Author: Angela Johnson
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It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about t

Author: Criss Jami
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On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not mer

Author: Geoffrey Wolff
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I have an arrow living inside my chest that shoots straight toward you—even though I know the sky is

Author: Emalynne Wilder
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You might just be the craziest person I've ever know, but you're also the bravest. - Marcus

Author: J. Scott Savage
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written

Author: Unknown
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If they endangered us, they also saved us from danger. If they harmed us, we have harmed them.

Author: Nick O'Donohoe
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A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl and work like a dog.

Author: Anonymous
Quote #123017

That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot

Author: Unknown
Quote #61084

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with AS

Author: Douglas Adams
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The idea of the Songun revolution is an idea of giving importance and precedence to military affairs

Author: Kim Jong-un
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See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Author: Paulo Coelho
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Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to

Author: Sarah Parish
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Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the retur

Author: Michael Pollan
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What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear mor

Author: James Hansen
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Author: Margaret Thatcher
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What we see in a democracy governed by “representatives” is not a government “for the people” but an

Author: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
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From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organ

Author: Robert Baden-Powell