"Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal."

-- Andrea diSessa

#Learning Quotes #Black And White Quotes #Intelligent Quotes

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

Source : Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.254, Penguin
“I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us”

Source : "Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.
“Effectiveness is best measured by results over time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.”
“Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.”
“I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed to it before. We took Broadway and put it in peoples' living rooms once a week for two seasons. People still come up to me in the street and say, 'I never went to theater before I saw "Smash.'" That's the greatest compliment.”

Source : "Megan Hilty on motherhood, ‘Smash’ and returning to Broadway". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.apnews.com. May 21, 2015.
“Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.”
“You donâ€™t know what goes on in anyoneâ€™s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a personâ€™s life, youâ€™re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you canâ€™t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a personâ€™s life, youâ€™re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”

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