#simi

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#elizabeth #helen #kind #perkins #reminds

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#began #blocks #coat #cotton #etc

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#american citizen #any #assimilate #become #cherished

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#having #his #plan #similar #someone

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.' ↗

— Richard D. James

#clever #effect #emotional #guitar #guitar solos

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#better #better place #concerned #country #excited

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ↗

— Helen Keller

#discovered the secret #doorway #ever #human #human spirit

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#concrete #description #details #dreamed #enables

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#history #religion #science #similarity #statement

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#complex #daily #daily work #distributed #example