"Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days."

-- Marvin Minsky

#One Day Quotes #Three Quotes

“You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.”
“Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.”
“Christianity is part of the law of England.”
“If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.”
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values”
“Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.”

Source : Carter Ratcliff (1982). “John Singer Sargent”, Abbeville Pr
“The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.”
“The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.”

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