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The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful evolution of all the components needed in a software system.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

The teacher has more power than the Minister.

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!

The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life. It has been recognized as the dynamic origin of development, learning, and evolution. In other words, creativity-the generation of new forms-is a key property of all living systems.

This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing

Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.