"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone."

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Source : "Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linghuistics (1910-1911)" by Ferdinand de Saussure, Pergamon Press, www.marxists.org. 1993.

Ferdinand de Saussure

#Study Quotes #Range Quotes #Interest Quotes

“On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.”
“This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).”
“It seemed Abe Vigoda's career was done until he was pronounced dead in print.”
“I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.”
“If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.”
“I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honoured. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.”
“Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.”

Source : Robert Sheckley (2014). “Dimension of Miracles”, p.59, Open Road Media
“The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.”

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