May 2012
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“The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as...”
– Daniel Webster
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“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions as attempts to find...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are for.”
– John A. Shedd
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The Case for Coding
As I have mentioned before, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to start learning how to code. Before the start of the year I had a vague idea of why coding was valuable, but I always assumed that I could always count on someone else, who’s brain didn’t bleed upon clicking ‘view source’, could handle it. A whirlwind of reading on the topic since then has made me realise how wrong I...
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“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to...”
– Woody Allen
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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of...”
– Stephen Fry
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Of Fish, Trees and Lemons
“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Einstein
A great feel-good quote, particularly welcome in these times of hardship. Unfortunately, in these times of hardship, the pond has all but dried up and a generation of fish is being forced to climb trees for a living. In the 3 months...
