#pro

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ↗

— George Eliot

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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ↗

— George Eliot

#ancestral #city #funeral #gathered #hemisphere

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

#breath #charter #conscience #contest #dogma

Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

#literary #offense #production #social

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake. ↗

— Noah Kerner

#design #marketing #product #design

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ↗

— George Eliot

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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. ↗

— George Eliot

#behind #best #failure #fear #i

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ↗

— George Eliot

#generate #heat #instead #like #likely

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#code #protect #scrutiny #using #verification

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. ↗

— George Eliot

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