#plain

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#i #laws #light #pathway #plain

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#also #appeals #being #being honest #even

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#deserve #did #explain #fate #held

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#beings #change #computer #concentrate #construction

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#computer #else #enough #everything #explain

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives? ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#anymore #cartoons #complaining #get #got

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#before #blind #deaf #decide #explain

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#i #onto #other #pain #particular

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#capricious #demands #discipline #easy #enough

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#big #bites #broadcasters #contempt #down