#tin

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#attracted #first #french #french women #i

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#come #find #finished #i #interesting

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them? ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#basic #because #changed #does #just

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#expertise #folks #getting #hand #like

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#direct #direct experience #eating #experience #genuine

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#dinner party #doing #embroidery #essay #painting

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#continue #dead #fighting #heal #our

Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#circular #conceived #direction #directions #electron

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#any #connected #countries #day #each