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Lewis_Carroll
Humpty Dumpty Words
“‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’”
- Source: Lewis Carroll [book/author]; “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There” [title]; 1871 [pubdate/original]; Macmillan and Company [pub]; “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll” [title/book/anthology]; 2018 [pubdate]; AB Books [pub]; Kindle [edition].
- Keywords: Word_quotes Humpty_quotes Dumpty_quotes Scorn_quotes Tone_quotes Meaning_quotes Choose_quotes More_quotes Less_quotes
Samuel_C_Florman
More Engineers
“We need more engineers, better engineers, and ‘greater’ engineers.”
- Source: From the book “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering” by {Samuel C. Florman}. Second edition published in 1994 by {St. Martin's Press}, New York, NY. First edition published in 1976. Kindle edition published in 2023. E-book ISBN 978-1466842366. Preface to the second edition.
- Keywords: Engineer_quotes More_quotes Better_quotes Great_quotes
Kurt_Gödel
Mind Machine
“Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.”
- Source: The words of Kurt Gödel as reported in the book ‘Topoi : The Categorial Analysis of Logic’ (1979) by Robert Goldblatt, page 13.
- Keywords: Mathematics_quotes Big_quotes Human_quotes Mind_quotes More_quotes Machine_quotes
Carl_Jung
Speak
“To no longer be a Christian is easy. But what next? For more is yet to come. Everything is waiting for you. And you? You remain silent and have nothing to say. But you should speak. Why have you received the revelation? You should not hide it.”
- Notes: A conversation Jung had with himself between his 'I' and his 'soul'.
- Source: Written by Carl Jung in his 'Black Books' between 1913 and 1931, volume 7, page 92c. Facsimile edition published as 'The Black Books of C. G. Jung', edited by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Martin Liebscher, John Peck and Sonu Shamdasani, published by W. W. Norton in 2020, ISBN 978-039308864-9. Reprinted in the book 'The Red Book: Liber Novus: A Reader's Edition', published 2009 by W. W. Norton, ISBN: 978-039308908-0. Edited by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Mark Kybruz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani. Introduction, page 61.
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David_E_Nye
Farm Production Too Much
“The fundamental problem was that farmers produced too much, driving down prices. New technologies, such as tractors, trucks, harvesting equipment, and electrical machinery, made it possible for each farmer to raise more.”
- Source: A book. Written by David E. Nye. Entitled 'Narratives and Spaces'. Published in 1997 by Univerity of Exeter Press, Exeter, UK. Hardback ISBN 0-85989-555-6. Paperback ISBN 0-85989-556-4. Chapter 3, page 45.
William_Shakespeare
Heaven and Earth
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
- Source: From the play “Hamlet” written by William Shakespeare, premiered circa 1599. Act 1, scene 5. The words of the character Hamlet to the character Horatio.
- Keywords: More_quotes Thing_quotes Heaven_quotes Earth_quotes Dream_quotes Philosophy_quotes
Mark_Twain
Annihilation
“Annihilation has no terrors for me, I have already tried it before I was born — a hundred million years — and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.”
- Source: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) in his autobiography, dictated circa 1907 published 1924 in ‘Mark Twain’s Autobiography’ by Mark Twain, Volume 1 and 2, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, Harper & Brothers, New York.
Edward_Yourdon
Design Analysis Strategy
“There is more to be gained from attention to design, analysis, and business strategy issues than from attention to programming-level issues.”
- Source: Edward Yourdon in the book “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer”. Published in 1992 by Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-203670-3. Chapter 2, section 2.1, page 27.
