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After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many. ↗


— Glenn Turner


#computer #just #just one #many #too

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.” Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed. ↗


— Richelle Mead


#rose-hathaway #tasha-ozera #advice

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? ↗


— Alan J. Perlis


#programming #sicp #science

Never give up - never surrender! ↗


— Commander Quincy Taggart


#galaxy-quest #science-fiction #scifi #spoof #science

There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything. ↗


— Jorge Luis Borges


#perception #science #science

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones. ↗


— Joseph Bruchac


#path #patience #personal-mythmaking #story #time

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. ↗


— Thomas Hardy


#woman #strength

Don't mistake activity with achievement. ↗


— John Wooden


#acquirement #act #action #activity #attainment

Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours. ↗


— Holly Black


#moms #sensitive #strong #advice

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. ↗


— James Baldwin


#attachment #belonging #comfort #completion #fulfillment






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