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Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.

Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Details are all there are.

Development is maintenance.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.