"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."

-- Allan Bloom

#Tradition Quotes

“Be a star not a diva!”
“I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.”

Source : "Q&A: Inside the Mind of the World's Top Chess Player". Interview with Aditi Malhotra, blogs.wsj.com. April 3, 2013.
“When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.”
“Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.”
“Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.”
“If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.”

Source : Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.”

Source : "Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions". Book edited by Stuart Borlase, 2012.
“Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.”

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