#use

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice. ↗

— Bill Budge

#just #keyboard #know #novice #proficient

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#been #complete #god #grace #here

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#careful #child #his #hold #know

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #against #american #american children #aspect

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#dressing #energy #like #pent #snappy

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#arms #because #both #contemplate #creation

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#classical #cultures #dance #dancer #days

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys. ↗

— Emma Bull

#levers #see #use #word

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#bed #born #chance #child #children

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#any #anything #had #i #known