#void

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#complexity #fools #geniuses #ignore #pragmatists

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#avoid #believe #guilt #led #pays

I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#career #developing #fun #going #having

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. ↗

— Plutarch

#carefully #endeavor #excel #excellent #faulty

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#close #ego #falls #goes #having

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. ↗

— Colin Powell

#also #council #demands #doubted #enforced

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#amsterdam #avoiding #being #bell #concept

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished. ↗

— Richard Price

#everywhere #finished #i #like #offices

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#imagination #leave #let us #men #pretty