"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."

-- Alan Perlis

#Fun Quotes #Learning Quotes #Self Quotes

“The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.”

Source : Charles Webster Leadbeater (1920). “The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals”
“Anyone can leave the body and do astral traveling, but they have to believe that ' they can do ' this. It is quite useless for a person to put out repelling thoughts of disbelief, or thoughts such as 'I cannot do' such a thing. Actually, it is remarkably easy to Astral Travel when one gets over the first hurdle of fear. Fear is the great brake.”
“The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.”
“Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.”
“It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.”
“Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.”
“Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all. To get them to bite something connected to a line and pull them into our world is managing a birth that brings these creatures from the realm of mysytery into the world of reality. It is a kind of creation.”
“I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake.”

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