"It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]"

-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Communication Quotes #Science Quotes #Years Quotes

“A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.”
“You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.”

Source : YouTube Channel "bfb72"/"Richard Stallman (as St IGNUcius) : Emacs vs Vi", www.youtube.com. March 04, 2008.
“Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.”
“When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'”
“I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, but the answer is never to crawl into a box and throw in the towel. There is good that can come from anything, even if it's just a later laugh and a good story.”
“I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.”
“I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.”
“Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in Godâ€™s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.”

Source : Jean Vanier (2013). “The Heart of L'Arche: A spirituality for every day”, p.33, SPCK

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