Quotes

Language

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.   Edsger Dijkstra Edsger Wybe Dijkstra ( Dutch:  11 May… Read More ›

Change

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.   Jane Goodall   Dame Jane Morris Goodall, (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934),[3] formerly Baroness Jane van… Read More ›

Language

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.    Mark Pagel   Mark David… Read More ›

Willing

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.   Dale Carnegie Dale Harbison Carnegie (spelled Carnagey until c. 1922; November 24, 1888 – November… Read More ›