"...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated."

Edsger Dijkstra

#Hard Work Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.”

Source : "Artur Davis: This isn't the Democratic Party I used to know". Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.
“Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.”
“The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.”

Source : "Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.
“Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.”
“I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart
“Nothing is really ours until we share it.”
“[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners ...”
“The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.”

Source : "Bourne Legacy Cast Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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