Wisdom in SpaceComparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.
-- Martin Fowler
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
-- Herbert Spencer
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The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues.... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.
-- Robert Pirsig
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. They made me suffer... But I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. We need such people in our creative lives. As John Stuart Mill once put it, both teachers and learners fall asleep at their posts when there is no enemy in the field.
-- Edward O. Wilson
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
-- Mark Twain
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
-- Emily Dickinson
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
-- Paul Tillich
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
-- Emile Herzog ((aka Andre Maurois))
We say "gestalt" when things combine to act in ways we can't explain.
-- Marvin Minsky