#there

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. ↗

— Walpola Rahula

#cogito-ergo-sum #existence #existentialism #god #humanity

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#comparison #dreams #imaginations #reality #seems

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#democracy #east #i #i do #itself

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#begging #obtained #putting #question #real

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#cannot #carry #concrete #demands #everyone

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#best #business #carrying #considering #execution

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

#artist #i #i am #i can #may

I can, therefore I am. ↗

— Simone Weil

#am #i #i am #i can #therefore

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together. ↗

— Jerry Stiller

#get #get married #hang #hang in there #hanging