#posing

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#before #college #exercises #games #ourselves

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#corollary #freedom #generate #how #imposing

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. ↗

— Brian Eno

#afterwards #again #composing #either #gardener

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#am #funded #i #i am #ignored

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#already #been #death #estate #estate tax

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#country #exposing #fair #i #i think

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#cognitive #i #i think #important #imposing

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea. ↗

— William Weld

#bad idea #flow #free #free flow #goods

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes. ↗

— Prince William

#going #hear #horribly #horror #i

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#cause #good #i #like #model