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...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. ↗

#history #religion #science #similarity #statement

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#complex #daily #daily work #distributed #example

Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sammy Tangui was the pacemaker in Lausanne. I liked the way he was running. He is tall, he has a strong body and his stride is similar to mine. I told him in one of the coming years I would need him when I try to break the World record. ↗

— David Rudisha

#already #body #break #coming #future

They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#been #borg #character #former #had

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#different worlds #discovered #i #make #north

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#expect #experience #i #me #readers

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#ever #languages #reality #representing #same

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization. ↗

— George Saunders

#desires #emotions #fears #fiction #get

Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#ago #because #did #funny #i

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#assimilation #avoid #essential #intelligence #prompt