Vous avez trouvé quelques mots de sagesse (5 sous la pièce)
You’ve found a few words of wisdom (5 cents apiece)
- Think of the computer as a incredible expansion of the human mind, yours…
- Your mind is precious, and so is your ability to use good judgment…
- Bill Gates recruits more new employees at Waterloo than at any other university
- Would your life be better without electricity and electronics?
- Are language and intelligence one and the same?
- Is anything more vital to the human condition than language and intelligence?
- There are no stupid questions, just incomplete or inadequate answers…
- Research means asking the right questions in order to discover the right answers
- Research is a constant to-and-fro movement between facts and hypothesis
- Revise your hypothesis to suit the facts; never force the facts to fit your hypothesis
- You’ll never find what you’re not looking for
- “Common sense” clings to old values; intelligence challenges all values
- In good times, we imagine a brighter future; in hard times, we recall a brighter past
- Since the “present” is the sum of all things past, it is forever changing
- To create the future, redefine your present
- Not every good idea was invented this week
- In times of barbarism, people grow less civil and ideas get lost
- Private greed hates the public good
- “Corporate democracy” is democracy redefined for the benefit of corporations
- Don’t equate happiness with “prosperity”
- Have realistic goals and describe them to yourself on paper
- Happiness lies in the struggle to achieve; avoidance of the struggle brings misery
- Would you travel strange lands with neither map nor guide?
- Contrary to popular opinion, curiosity did not kill the cat
- Cats are sensitive by nature
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