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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#complexity #fools #geniuses #ignore #pragmatists

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#among #aware #becomes #cause #causes

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#i #inside #live #office #outside

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

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ↗

— Plato

#change #direction #excess #generally #governments

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. ↗

— Plato

#causes #direction #excessive #increase #opposite

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#houses #just #made #science #stones

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#experience #faculty #forces #mind #only

The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things, To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold. Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true? ↗

— Pádraig Pearse

#dreams #dreams-coming-true #reality #dreams

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#dominion #else #fate #final #god