#rely

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atomic #atomic energy #created #energy #existing

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#art #even #gesture #grasp #greater

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #constant #deeper #evasion #feelings

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#disturb #disturbance #every #future #herself

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#compelling #exercise #force #game #internal

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ↗

— Mark Twain

#egg #hen #laid #merely #noise

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ↗

— William Feather

#found #happiness #indictments #intelligence #person

I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#coming #i #immediately #insincere #just

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#does #exist #objective #politics #purely