"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"

-- Seymour Cray

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“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”
“A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.”
“We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.”
“I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is so you can see everything that it isn't. The plan never works. Something happens and you adjust to it and you adapt to it and you accept it and you keep going, but that's not the plan.”
“I am one of the haunted.”
“My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.”

Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.273
“Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?”
“Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.”

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