"When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In general, the later chapters contain more reliable information than the earlier ones do. The author feels that this technique of deliberate lying will actually make it easier for you to learn the ideas. Once you understand a simple but false rule, it will not be hard to supplement that rule with its exceptions."

-- Donald Knuth

#Lying Quotes #Learning Quotes #Simple Quotes

“If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look up! You will see no rules of composition, no evidence of superior technique. Yet, you will be staring into the very face of pure, unadulterated beauty and wonder. That is the unattainable Ideal for which I must constantly strive.”
“Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.”

Source : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.221
“Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.”

Source : Hee-Jin Kim (2010). “Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen”, p.3, SUNY Press
“We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.”
“Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.”
“I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and extension - no time elapses between the exposure to language and the creation of rhythmic sensibility.”
“We know what we need to do. Let's re-elect President Obama!”
“I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.”

Source : "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part II: D". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 13, 2011.

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