“ You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way. ”
- Virgil Thomson- Copy
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“ Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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“ We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ”
- Lily Tomlin- Copy
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“ It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
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“ What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's ALL that counts. ”
- Jack Nicholson- Copy
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“ Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. ”
- George Gallup- Copy
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“ It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. ”
- William Osler- Copy
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“ Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. ”
- Alice Walker- Copy
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“ Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ”
- Frank Robinson- Copy
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“ Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. ”
- James Magary- Copy
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“ No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ”
- Henry S. Haskins- Copy
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“ The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain. ”
- David Rogers- Copy
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“ The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics. ”
- David Deutsch- Copy
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“ All the limitative Theorems of metamathematics and the theory of computation suggest that once the ability to represent your own structure has reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally… ”
- Douglas R. Hofstadter- Copy
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“ We're in a slower-growth environment and as Larry said, if you can get 10 percent growth from organic growth and 10 percent from acquisition, it adds cash and adds earnings. That's as long as they can make the integration work. ”
- Chuck Jones- Copy
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“ It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do… ”
- John Muir- Copy
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“ We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended… ”
- Josephine Hart- Copy
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