#server

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#observer #view #window #world

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#go #i #java #just #microsoft

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#body #climbing #directly #even #i

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#actually #i #job #life #looking

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#else #hands #program #proprietary #server

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#because #been #collaboration #desktop #ditch

God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond. ↗

— Johnnie Dent Jr.

#inspirational #perserverance #stick-to-itiveness #stick-to-your-gut #winning-and-losing

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#attack #be patient #because #cleverness #courage

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#capacity #derive #desire #feel #her