#tru

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#elite #fraction #humanity #more #productive

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here? ↗

— Emma Thompson

#areas #behaviour #change #communicating #communication

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#analysis #believe #decision #decision making #existing

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#destruction #greatest #mass #nations #rogue

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#encourage #every #highest #his #idea

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#absolute #absolute truth #cells #commodity #context

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#beings #change #computer #concentrate #construction

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#guitar #had #hear #i #instruments

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#dealing #exercise #expensive #i #i think

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#almost #any #because #better #capital