Notices tagged with q, page 5
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#q "Those who urge us to “think different,” in other words, almost never do so themselves. Year after year, new installments in this unchanging genre are produced and consumed. #Creativity, they all tell us, is too important to be left to the creative." !eduposse
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#q "`Because I'm clever!'… It could be the cry of a superhero…. To those of us who grew up not with Superman and Green Lantern but with Ford Prefect and Tom Baker." #drwho #tv #pbs http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/01/because-im-clever
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#q "It's not where you're from, it's `wear your hat'" ~Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiRPBCiJg2c #chap-hop #music
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#q Douglas Adams "I think a #nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. " https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_adams !statusnet
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#q (1978) "If we could look in on the future at say, the year 2000, would we see a unity, a #federation, or a #fragmentation?" http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/net.history.txt
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#q #LinuxJournal: "Linux doesn't lie, any more than gravity lies, or geology lies, or atmosphere lies. Like those other natural things, #Linux has no guile, no agenda beyond supporting the entirety of use-space. In rough words, there's no bullshit about it, and that's one reason it gets used." http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-vs-bullshit
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#q #ScienceGuy: "If you want to deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically-literate voters and tax-payers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems."
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#q "They evaluate [ #technology ] and decide if it's a good fit for the lives they want to lead. [This] is where the Amish may have something to teach the rest of us."
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#q "Videodrome is the best #movie ever made about #Facebook." http://omnireboot.com/reviews/network-of-blood/
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#q "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." —Bertrand #Russell
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#q “Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.” http://stopbeingaloser.org/2011/08/08/motivating-monday-ideas/
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#q "Only cowards use #censorship" http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4022577&cid=44399121
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#esr #dvcs #q: developers over the age of about 45 are very resistant to moving to DVCSes. Here’s the interesting part: it’s not because they don’t get that DVCSes are better tools – in fact, one common reason for resistance is “it would make changes by random people too easy”. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3940&cpage=1#comment-339841
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“You’re making this too complicated when it’s really quite simple. All you have to do is make the software… !q http://j.mp/12kWrqF
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"OOP is sometimes a hammer looking for a nail when the problem is a screw." !q
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” — Albert Einstein #Q4TD !q
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“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.” — Calvin Coolidge #Q4TD !q http://j.mp/12PY8rd
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!q "The smallest interval of time occurs in Manhattan, between signal turning green & taxi driver behind you blowing horn." ~ Johnny Carson
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Somewhere I remember reading a !q like "the philosphers who were actually smart and serious and capable of applying rigor developed #math, and the rest stuck around to give us the #bullshit that #philosophy is today". WHERE did I read that?
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#q "It's a good time to be a musician, it's a terrible time to be a record company" — #Fatboy-Slim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHc828qr-vA