#al

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#antithetical #better #better off #different #empire

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#fact #general #i #i think #idea

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#both #content #deal #expressions #functions

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#spirituality #upanishads #love

Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back. ↗

— Bobby Womack

#call #know #leave #more #them

If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BC, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#evolution #human-history #science #age

You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion. ↗

— Bobby Womack

#ending #finally #go #gotta #hang

I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts. ↗

— Seth Grahame-Smith

#existential #war #age

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart. ↗

— John Woo

#always #deep #deep inside #director #full

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#memorable #courage