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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. ↗

— Fernand Braudel

#contradictions #despite #difficulties #everything #framework

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. ↗

— Fernand Braudel

#divided #history #into #may #move

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ↗

— Robert Brault

#case #dead #eraser #inches #just

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#hard #idea #library #must #original

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#assigned #categories #gone #i #i am

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#doctors #first #had #heart #i

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness. ↗

— Tim Bray

#bit #dollars #either #enterprise #i

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups. ↗

— Tim Bray

#better #community #cost #deploy #developers

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you. ↗

— Donna Brazile

#defining #front #money #opponent #out

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#despite #moral #simply #tell #world