"Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one."

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Eric S. Raymond

#Communication Quotes #Development Quotes #Coercion Quotes

“Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.”
“You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.”
“We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.33, Courier Corporation
“Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.”

Source : Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1842). “History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.143
“See? Anger can be healthy. When the time comesâ€“and it will comeâ€“remember that. And what I said. Embrace your powersâ€“love yourself the way Nature made you, and you will prevail. Always.”
“It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.”

Source : International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.
“I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.”
“Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint with that of a continually transcending activity. ... There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.”

Source : "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.

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