"It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives."

-- Frank Smith

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“Some people consider me worse than Hitler, luckily for others I am Jesus.”
“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it”

Source : Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles Revisited (1971)
“Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.”
“An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.”
“I was just ready to make a movie for the girls. It was just really fun to write for a girl. It was really indulgent and sweet. The whole movie feels indulgent, doesn't it? It's such a romp in England.”

Source : "Interview: Jerusha Hess and J.J. Feild of 'Austenland'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. August 22, 2013.
“My engineering training taught me to be a systems thinker. I looked at companies as "systems" and saw work as a system of tasks - that needed to be reengineered. I was also focused on operations, getting things done and built. My engineering training taught me to be a pragmatist.”
“The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so Iâ€™ll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, thatâ€™s not accurate. Everythingâ€™s there so I wonâ€™t be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.”
“Many say that DOS is the dark side [from Star Wars], but actually UNIX is more like the dark side: It's less likely to find the one way to destroy your incredibly powerful machine, and more likely to make upper management choke.”

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