#again

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#ago #comet #computations #did #first

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#all day #almost #am #day #fatigue

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#again #beating #because #become #best

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#against #also #cannot #company #creative

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#against #already #beat #been #competing

What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#development #forefront #game #i #myself

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#against #because #citizens #close #debt

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#against #allows #also #because #certain

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#anyone #arduous #boat #continent #going

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#becomes #done #especially #going #hold