Sunday, May 05, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Paul DiLascia

« All quotes from this author
 

That's left as an exercise for the reader.

 
Paul DiLascia

» Paul DiLascia - all quotes »



Tags: Paul DiLascia Quotes, Authors starting by D


Similar quotes

 

It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an exercise for the reader.  :-)

 
Larry Wall
 

Philosophers might care to ask themselves ... how often they are accomplices in increasing the audience for a second-rate article simply because their introductory course needs a simple-minded version of a bad idea that even freshmen can refute. Some of the most frequently reprinted articles in twentieth-century philosophy are famous precisely because nobody believes them; everybody can see what's wrong with them. ... The confirmation of this claim is left as an exercise for the reader. Among the memes that structure the infosphere and hence affect the transmission of other memes are the laws of libel.

 
Daniel C. Dennett
 

Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

 
Basil Bunting
 

I am reminded of those prodigies who spent years of their lives calculating digits of the decimal expansion of - a task that is now a mere warm-up exercise for computer software. I cannot help wandering which of my labors will appear equally quaint and pathetic to some future reader who ransacks libraries for old volumes like this one.

 
Brian Hayes
 

We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.

 
Reinhold Niebuhr
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact