#mat

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious. ↗

— Idries Shah

#materialism #pleasure #pride #religion #sufi

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#improvement #like #managers #mathematicians #want

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#better #branches #difficult #had #mathematicians

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. ↗

— Neil Simon

#comedy #degrees #fact #generally #get

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#broadcaster #delivers #knowledge #matter #programmes

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation. ↗

— David Dinkins

#chairman #fact #foundation #i #i am

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#creating #god #mathematics #used #world

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#heart #match #mind #persuasion

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows. ↗

— John Barnes

#calliope #dead-princes #sleeping-beauty #stories #tales

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty. ↗

— Betty Dodson

#dealing #documentaries #ends #floor #honesty