--- - !ruby/object:Quote author: Samuel Adams info: "" quote: The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tim Allen info: "" quote: "Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a stationwagon." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Ford info: US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947) quote: Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Immanuel Kant info: Critique of JudgmentGerman philosopher (1724 - 1804) quote: "The height of progress, when people\x92s propensity to strive for what is dispensable begins to interfere with what is indispensable, is called luxury." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C. S. Lewis info: English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963) quote: Nothing is beautiful except the abnormal; and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Emily Dickinson info: US poet (1830 - 1886) quote: I am nobody, who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then that's a pair of us! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur Henry King info: "" quote: Love is not just an ecstasy, not just an intense feeling. It is a driving force. It is something that carries us through our life of joyful duty. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun Tzu info: "" quote: Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun Tzu info: "" quote: If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Georges Brassens info: "" quote: Without work, talent is nothing but a bad habit. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Howard Tayler info: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Pirates quote: "Rule #37: There is no \"overkill\". There is only \"open fire\" and \"I need to reload\"." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata info: "Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005" quote: We are like oil and water, but all my other relationships are like oil and vinegar! Delicious! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata info: "Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005" quote: I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata info: "Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005" quote: Is the question 'Why is it bad to do bad things?' the same as asking permission? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter Drucker info: Harvard Business ReviewAmerican (Austrian-born) management writer (1909 - 2005) quote: "Far too many people\x97especially people with great expertise in one area\x97are contemptuous of knowledge in other areas or believe that being bright is a substitute for knowledge." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Jefferson info: 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) quote: Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must approve the homage of reason rather than of blind-folded fear. Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Kinsley info: "Washington Post, Business as Usual: Corrupt" quote: "The moral arc of a Washington career could be divided into four parts: idealism, pragmatism, ambition and corruption." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert Louis Stevenson info: Treasure IslandScottish author (1850 - 1894) quote: You can't touch pitch and not be mucked. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur C. Clarke info: English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) quote: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Greg Laswell info: Back to June quote: The more you pay for a rubber flower, the harder it is to say it's not real. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Hanley, PhD info: "" quote: A working relationship takes work. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Walter Garrett Riddick, Jr. info: "" quote: The bear in your trap is your bear. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Srijit Prabhakaran info: "" quote: The power of speech is not in words, but in the oration. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Miller info: US author (1891 - 1980) quote: The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ozzy osbourne info: "" quote: Trouble always seems to find a way to live inside my mind. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Douglas Adams info: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyEnglish humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) quote: "What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dean Koontz info: Midnight quote: For a thinking creature of high intellect there can be no pleasure separate from emotion. If you deny men emotion you deny them pleasure. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dean Koontz info: Midnight quote: Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dean Koontz info: Lightening quote: Understanding wasn't always necessary as long as you believed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dean Koontz info: Twilight Eyes quote: In moderate doses melancholy can be strangley comforting, darkly sweet; it can by providing contrast, give an exquisitely sharp edge to happiness, especially to pleasures of the flesh. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Robert A. Heinlein info: Citizen of the Galaxy quote: Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo Tolstoy info: Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910) quote: If I were told that what I shall write will be read in twenty years by the children of today and that they will weep and smile over it and will fall in love with life, I would devote all my life and all my strengths to it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Lennon info: English singer & songwriter (1940 - 1980) quote: God is a concept by which we measure our pain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arsalan Pirzada info: "" quote: Run and the whole world runs with you. Hide and you hide alone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John C. Maxwell info: 25 Ways to Win With People quote: The entire population of the world-with one minor exception-is composed of other people. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terence McKenna info: Tripping quote: I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Marley info: Redemption SongJamaican reggae musician & singer (1945 - 1981) quote: Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Patrick H. Edwards, Esq. info: "" quote: People frequently say that so and so died 'died doing what they loved.' I hope that when I die it's right before I was about to do something that I hated to do so I could at least avoid doing it one more time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Imam Ali info: Peak of Eloquence quote: Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds). rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Imam Ali info: Peak of Eloquence quote: One who says unpleasant things about others, will himself quickly become a target of their scandal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nathaniel Hawthorne info: US author (1804 - 1864) quote: "I do not want to be a doctor and live by men\x92s diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer and live by their quarrels. So, I don\x92t see that there is anything left for me but to be an author." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nathaniel Hawthorne info: US author (1804 - 1864) quote: What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Hedberg info: Comedy Central PresentsAmerican comedian (1968 - 2005) quote: I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Hedberg info: American comedian (1968 - 2005) quote: With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George MacDonald info: Scottish novelist & poet (1824 - 1905) quote: To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Farquhar (1678 - 1707) info: "\"Wycherly: Love in a Wood\", act iii. sc. 3" quote: Necessity is the mother of invention. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Democritus info: Greek philosopher (460 BC - 370 BC) quote: By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Baldwin info: US author (1924 - 1987) quote: People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Blaise Pascal info: French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662) quote: Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernesto Che Guevara info: "" quote: At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ernesto Che Guevara info: "" quote: I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jodi Picoult info: My Sister's Keeper quote: A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Laura Bennett info: Crossing Jordan quote: I figured out how to know when you're really loved. it's when you see yourself reflected, really reflected in the other person's eyes, and you know it's the same for them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jodi Picoult info: My Sister's Keeper quote: You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuck Palahniuk info: ChokeUS writer (1962 - ) quote: Masochism is a valuable job skill. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gordon B. Hinckley info: "" quote: If you are complaining about life, it is because you are thinking only about yourself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gordon B. Hinckley info: "" quote: There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "Quotations by unknown authors " quote: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Isaac Asimov info: I, RobotUS science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992) quote: People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds up a mirror for you? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ashley Hayes info: "" quote: If one is to be an effective leader, one must willingly accept difference. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Allan Poe info: US short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) quote: I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Phlostigin Verdigris info: "" quote: It is better to be hated for who you are, than loved for who you are not. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: DuneUS science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) quote: If wishes were fishes, then we would all cast nets. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sidney J. Harris info: "" quote: When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Elizabeth Kubler Ross info: "" quote: People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Parks Cousins info: "" quote: How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Carrie Fisher info: US author & movie actress (1956 - ) quote: Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: R. Stevens info: Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06 quote: Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: "Half Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected AphorismsAustrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936)" quote: Many things that I am experiencing I already remember. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Karl Kraus info: "Half Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected AphorismsAustrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936)" quote: Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mitch Hedberg info: American comedian (1968 - 2005) quote: I haven't slept for a whole week, because that would be too long. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Neil Gaiman info: Season of Mists quote: To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Handy info: Deep Thoughts quote: I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.' rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ellen Mosner info: Brookline Village Newsletter quote: You are what you file. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter O'Gorman info: "" quote: Silence is the loudest thing I've ever heard rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mel Brooks info: US actor, comedian, & movie director (1926 - ) quote: Sex is like pizza. Even when it is bad it is good. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Reuter info: "" quote: It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: DuneUS science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) quote: There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frank Herbert info: Children of DuneUS science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986) quote: The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mohandas K. Ghandi info: "" quote: Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need... but not every man's greed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eoin Colfer info: Artemis Fowl quote: Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tim Burton info: Charlie and the Chocolate factory quote: Everything in here is eatable. I'm eatable, but that my children is called cannibalism, and is frowned upon in most societies. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bob Maowad info: "" quote: You can't leave footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Alejandro King info: "" quote: The outstanding problem of cryogenics isn't whether future advances in technology will enable you to be unfrozen and brought back to life 10,000 years from now. The outstanding problem of cryogenics is whether 250 consecutive generations of security guards earning $6.50 an hour will remember to check the thermostat every night. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Daniel Fitzpatrick info: "" quote: The doorway to success cannot be opened with a key, but rather a combination rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thucydides info: Greek historian (471 BC - 400 BC) quote: Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dwight D. Eisenhower info: 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969) quote: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. Jacques info: Questionable Content quote: You can't just up and convert a whaling ship into a deep-sea trawler overnight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph J. Dewey info: "" quote: He who stands in the true middle is seen as an extremist by the real extremists. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph J. Dewey info: The Immortal II page 233 quote: If we believe we have no control, we acquiesce our real power, become subject to the decisions of others, and become like a leaf floating helplessly down a current of other people's decisions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-Tzu info: Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: "Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Heather Nova info: "" quote: There is a paradise that can be found A better life to bring us round And all we really need to do Is see the world like lovers do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frederic Chopin info: "" quote: Even the most stunning rose has thorns. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anne Rice info: Interview with the VampireUS novelist (1941 - ) quote: We all die. The one thing you share with every mortal is death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Oscar Wilde info: The Picture of Dorian GrayIrish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) quote: The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stephen King info: US horror novelist & screenwriter (1947 - ) quote: A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David M. Manges info: "" quote: Real leaders do not want power, they are thrust into it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Epicurus info: Greek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC) quote: If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Al-Megdad info: "" quote: For all I've fought and gained; only the thoughts of what I've lost remain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun Tzu info: The Art of War quote: The ruler cannot mobilize the army out of personal anger. The general cannot engage in battle because of personal frustration. Anger can revert to happiness, annoyance can revert to joy, but a vanquished state cannot be revived, the dead cannot be brought back to life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Hironobu Sakaguchi info: Final Fantasy IX quote: "World only has two things: Things you can eat and things you can no eat." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: L. Ron Hubbard info: The Ability Congress - Washington D.C 1957US author & science fiction novelist (1911 - 1986) quote: It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Cage info: US composer of avant-garde music (1912 - 1992) quote: I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Theodore Roosevelt info: 26th president of US (1858 - 1919) quote: If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tyler Richey info: "" quote: Brilliance occurs, not when everyone is looking at you, but when they turn their heads. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city, and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift... that's nausea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marcus Aurelius info: "" quote: Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, and vanishing away. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Dickens info: Great ExpectationsEnglish novelist (1812 - 1870) quote: No man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mikhail Bakunin info: God and the StateRussian anarchist political philosopher (1814 - 1876) quote: I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Barbara Mikkelson info: "Writer at snopes.com " quote: Don't buy problems, they're giving them away for free. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Adams info: "" quote: Many people say that they love the winter, but what they really love is feeling proof against it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett info: Good Omens quote: Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Andrew S Grove info: "" quote: Success leads to complacency, complacency leads to failure, only the paraniod survive. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata info: "Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005" quote: Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ortega y Ortega info: "" quote: Effort is not effort until it begins to hurt. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Alejandro King info: My War On Terror! quote: Have you read the Quran? Do you know what these poor dupes are being promised in the afterlife as a reward for flying jetliners into office buildings? Fresh fruit, chilled water, cushy lawn furniture ... and dark-eyed teenage girls. Would someone at the US Information Agency please inform these people that in America they can get all this stuff at Wal-Mart any time they want?! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Alejandro King info: My War On Terror! quote: Whenever I read Jean-Paul Sartre's famous quote, 'Hell is other people,' it's like he's right there in the room with me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Joseph John Dewey info: "" quote: He who denies the existence of a truth because it sounds negative creates a vacuum that draws the darkness unto him. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Marika Cobbold info: Shooting Butterflies quote: If you define yourself through the opinions of others you'll never be defined at all. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dan Marquardt info: "" quote: Everyone woman has a flaw. If it is not on the exterior it's in her head. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abubakr Hussain info: Life and Death quote: In life every man is on a ladder. The steps of that ladder are different for everyone but the last step is the same, that being death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Leo Pennworks info: "" quote: He who says, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," has not been hit by a dictionary. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Roger Ebert info: Movie Reveiw of "American Beauty" quote: The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Patrick Dennis info: Auntie Mame quote: Life is a banquet, and most poor bastards are starving to death. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Vince Lombardi info: US football coach (1913 - 1970) quote: Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tiger Woods info: "" quote: Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jack Kerouac info: letter to Neal Cassidy, 6 October, 1950US novelist (1922 - 1969) quote: You, man must write exactly as everything rushes into your head and AT ONCE. The pain of writing is just that... rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Strachan info: New York Times 2003 quote: We have always been sort of monosyllabic in terms of languages, and that extends into ignorance or wariness of other cultures. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Norman Mailer info: US journalist & novelist (1923 - ) quote: Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disappointment. It's the exactly opposite of capitalism. In capitalism you want your business to succeed, and to the degree it does your energy increases, and you go out and buy an even bigger business. In writing it's almost the exact opposite. You just want to keep the store going. You're not going to do as well this year as last year probably, but nonetheless let's keep the store going. What ruins most writers of talent is that they don't get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. K. Rowling info: "British fantasy author " quote: I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Truman Capote info: US author (1924 - 1984) quote: I conceived the whole adventure as a short comic -nonfiction novel- the first. That book was an important event for me. While writing it, I realized I just might have found a solution to what had always been my greatest creative quandary. I wanted to produce a journalistic novel, something on a large scale that would have the credibility of fact, the immediacy of film, the depth and freedom of prose, and the precision of poetry. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ezra Pound info: to Harriet Monroe, 1915US poet (1885 - 1972) quote: Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry James info: British (US -born) author (1843 - 1916) quote: We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tim O'Brien info: "" quote: There are two levels to it. On one level the stories are made up. But they're made up for a reason, and the reason has to do with a different kind of truth. It has to do with emotional and spiritual truths. It is a way of trying to use a lie, which is the story, to approach some deeper, more spiritual sense of truth. I don't mean truth with a capital T; I just mean small kinds of truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sir Winston Churchill info: British politician (1874 - 1965) quote: A woman once drove me to drink, and I never had the decency to thank her. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: "" quote: Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: "" quote: Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: "" quote: I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: All Eyez On Me Book 1 - Only God Can Judge Me quote: I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shalu info: "" quote: Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: The Rose That Grew From Concrete - In The Event Of My Demise (poetry) quote: When my heart can beat no more I hope I die for a principle or a belief that I have lived for. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: "" quote: My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: "" quote: The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: "" quote: I am society's child, this is how they made me, and now I'm saying what's on my mind and they dont want that. This is what you made me America. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: "" quote: If you walked by a street and you was walking on concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstances and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, you can't even see that I've come up from out of that. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tupac Shakur info: Keep Ya Head Up (song) quote: You know it's funny when it rains it pours They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P. G. Wodehouse info: A Carnival of Modern Humor (preface) 1967British humorist & novelist in US (1881 - 1975) quote: To be a humorist, one must see the world out of focus. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gabrial Garcia Marquez info: "Book: El amor en los tiempos del colera (1985)" quote: The moment of wisdom comes to all people, unfortunattely at a time they no longer need it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Thomas Carlyle info: Time Magazine 11/27/72Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) quote: Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George W. Bush info: State of the Union address '03 maybe?43rd President of US (1946 - ) quote: America does not need a permission slip to defend ourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Mora info: "" quote: You don't know. You just don't know. You may think you know, but you don't know. And you never will. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Mora info: "" quote: Playoffs?! Don't talk about playoffs! Are you kidding me? Playoffs?! I'm just hoping we can win a game, another game! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Mora info: "" quote: I love coaching. I love competition. I love preparation. I love gameday. I love coaching. I've been doing it a long time, and I love it, win or lose, I love it. It's a lot more fun when you win, but I love it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jake Fulton info: "" quote: There are no winners of war, only survivors and even they die inside from guilt. They only physically survive to warn us. To warn us that there is nothing more terrible than what they have done. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Jaques Rousseau info: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality quote: As for you, your happiness is complete; it remains merely to enjoy it. And to become perfectly happy you are in need of nothing more than to know how to be satisfied with being so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: The habit of intellectual principles without reasons is called faith. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Jacques Rouseau info: Discourse on Inequality quote: One would see the multitude oppressed inside society as a consequence of the very precautions taken against threats from outside, one would see oppression increase continually without the oppressed ever being able to know where it would end, nor what legitimate means remained for them to halt it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fyodor Dostoevsky info: Notes from the UndergroundRussian novelist (1821 - 1881) quote: As for what concerns me in particular I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fyodor Dostoevsky info: Notes from the UndergroundRussian novelist (1821 - 1881) quote: I utter what you would not dare think. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Miller info: SexusUS author (1891 - 1980) quote: Nobody can feel better than the man who is completely taken in. To be intelligent may be a boon, but to be completely trusting, gulible to the point of idiocy, to surrender without reservation, is one of the supreme joys of life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Excessive productivity can bring the most gifted man almost to madness. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Human, all-too-HumanGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: However far man may extend himself with his knowledge, however objective he may appear to himself- -ultimately he reaps nothing but his own biography. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Human, all-too-HumanGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Out of passions grow opinions, mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Human, all-too-HumanGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: A profession is the backbone of life. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Joyce info: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManIrish author (1882 - 1941) quote: I am also sure that there is no such thing as free- thinking in as much as all thinking must be must be bound by its own laws. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata info: "Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005" quote: It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata info: "Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005" quote: Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Maximilien Robespierre info: French politician & revolutionary (1758 - 1794) quote: Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Josh Tenenbaum info: quoted in "The Power of Coincidence," Psychology Today, July 2004 quote: Coincidences are a true paradox... on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Arthur C. Clarke info: English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - ) quote: The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charles Darwin info: Origin of SpeciesEnglish biologist (1809 - 1882) quote: Why, on the theory of Creation, should there be so much variety and so little real novelty? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: Human, all-too-HumanGerman philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: . . .the real world is much smaller than the imaginary. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rene Descartes info: Discourse on MethodFrench mathematician & philosopher (1596 - 1650) quote: Without doubt one always looks more carefully at what one believes must be seen by many than at what one does only for oneself, and often the things that have seemed to me to be true when I began to concieve them have appeared false to me when I wanted to put them on paper. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rene Descartes info: Discourse on MethodFrench mathematician & philosopher (1596 - 1650) quote: . . .to be useful to no one is, strictly speaking, to be worthless. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Benedictus de Spinoza info: On the Improvement of the Understanding quote: All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Juvenal info: The SatiresRoman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) quote: What's infamy matter when you get to keep your fortune? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: "He who has much to proclaim one day, stays silently much immersed within himself: he who has to kindle the lightning one day, must for a long time--be a cloud." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Friedrich Nietzsche info: German philosopher (1844 - 1900) quote: Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Juvenal info: The SatiresRoman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD) quote: Myself, I prefer life without fires, without nocturnal panics. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: Now everyone must do after his kind, be he asp or angle. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: . . .but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fyodor Dostoevsky info: The Adolescent (also translated as A Raw Youth)Russian novelist (1821 - 1881) quote: So that if a man rejects God, he will have to worship an idol that may be made of wood, gold, or ideas. So those who think they don't need God are really just idol worshipers, and that's what we should call them. But there must be true atheists too; only they're much more dangerous because they come to us with the name of God on their lips . . . There are some people like that, my friends, and there should be. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: WaldenUS Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: The highest price you can pay for a thing is to ask for it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edgar Allan Poe info: The Murders in the Rue MorgueUS short story author, editor, & poet (1809 - 1849) quote: Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Woodrow Wilson info: 28th president of US (1856 - 1924) quote: If you want to make enemies, try to change something. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: The light that puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry David Thoreau info: US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862) quote: Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: 1984English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: By lack of understanding they remained insane. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: 1984English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: 1984English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: Sanity is not statistical. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: George Orwell info: 1984English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) quote: ..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anatole France info: ThaisFrench novelist (1844 - 1924) quote: ...it is not by reflection and intelligence, but by perception, that the highest and purest truths are attained. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Moliere info: The MisanthropeFrench actor & comic dramatist (1622 - 1673) quote: Yes, if we were prepared to be honest we might rid ourselves of much self deception. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Moliere info: The MisanthropeFrench actor & comic dramatist (1622 - 1673) quote: Virtue on earth is persecuted ever; the envious die, but envy never. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ivan Turgenev info: Fathers and Sons quote: Death is an old joke, but it comes fresh to everyone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Waldo Emerson info: US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) quote: All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nero info: "" quote: What an artist perishes with me! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anatole France info: Sylvester BonnardFrench novelist (1844 - 1924) quote: He who lives little, changes little. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anatole France info: Sylvester BonnardFrench novelist (1844 - 1924) quote: Who ever enters here, honors me; who ever does not-- pleases me. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Voltaire (Fran\xE7ois-Marie Arouet)" info: "" quote: "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mao Tse-Tung info: Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976) quote: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: Being and Nothingness (1943)French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: Every man is condemned to freedom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: No ExitFrench author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Uffe Ellemann-Jensen info: The Economist, January 5, 2006 quote: We have a right to speak our minds, not an obligation to do so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Catherine Hoban-Robinson info: "" quote: If the man had every other baby there would never be a fourth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jim Highsmith info: "" quote: The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery info: French writer (1900 - 1944) quote: Language is the source of misunderstandings. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton info: English dramatist, novelist, & politician (1803 - 1873) quote: Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton info: English dramatist, novelist, & politician (1803 - 1873) quote: Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Nancy Linn-Desmond info: "" quote: Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Ana\xEFs Nin" info: US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977) quote: And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: Man is condemned to be free. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: P. J. O'Rourke info: US humorist & political commentator (1947 - ) quote: The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sean O'Casey info: Irish dramatist (1880 - 1964) quote: No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Sun-Tzu info: Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC) quote: Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Charlotte-Catherine info: "" quote: The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Caspian Tredwell-Owen info: " and Alex Kurtzman, The Island, 2005" quote: When you want something really bad and you close your eyes and wish for it-- God's the guy who ignores you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee info: US track athlete (1962 - ) quote: It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Chuang-tzu info: " (369 BC - 286 BC)" quote: How do we know that in clinging to this life we are not merely clinging to an illusion and delaying our entry into the real world? rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Artur Andrade (1927-1991) info: "DN Madeira \x93Malta do Manel\x94 \x96 04/03/1989" quote: "Worse than a bad musician is a mercenary (musician). We need money to live but we don\x92t live to receive money. Besides, a pig with a gold chain on his neck always will be a pig" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mao Tse-Tung info: Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976) quote: Revolution is no dinner party, unless your dinner party is full of blood and iron. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Peter O'Gorman info: "" quote: Silence is the loudest thing I've ever heard rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao-Tzu info: Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC) quote: "Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Michael Al-Megdad info: "" quote: For all I've fought and gained; only the thoughts of what I've lost remain. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city, and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift... that's nausea. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tim O'Brien info: "" quote: There are two levels to it. On one level the stories are made up. But they're made up for a reason, and the reason has to do with a different kind of truth. It has to do with emotional and spiritual truths. It is a way of trying to use a lie, which is the story, to approach some deeper, more spiritual sense of truth. I don't mean truth with a capital T; I just mean small kinds of truth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Jaques Rousseau info: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality quote: As for you, your happiness is complete; it remains merely to enjoy it. And to become perfectly happy you are in need of nothing more than to know how to be satisfied with being so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Jacques Rouseau info: Discourse on Inequality quote: One would see the multitude oppressed inside society as a consequence of the very precautions taken against threats from outside, one would see oppression increase continually without the oppressed ever being able to know where it would end, nor what legitimate means remained for them to halt it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Voltaire (Fran\xE7ois-Marie Arouet)" info: "" quote: "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mao Tse-Tung info: Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976) quote: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: Being and Nothingness (1943)French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: Every man is condemned to freedom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: No ExitFrench author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Uffe Ellemann-Jensen info: The Economist, January 5, 2006 quote: We have a right to speak our minds, not an obligation to do so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Catherine Hoban-Robinson info: "" quote: If the man had every other baby there would never be a fourth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Tom Cargill info: "" quote: The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time...The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Voltaire (Fran\xE7ois-Marie Arouet)" info: "" quote: "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mao Tse-Tung info: Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976) quote: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: Being and Nothingness (1943)French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: Every man is condemned to freedom. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jean-Paul Sartre info: No ExitFrench author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) quote: One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Uffe Ellemann-Jensen info: The Economist, January 5, 2006 quote: We have a right to speak our minds, not an obligation to do so. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Catherine Hoban-Robinson info: "" quote: If the man had every other baby there would never be a fourth. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Antoine de Saint-Exup\xE9ry" info: The Little PrinceFrench writer (1900 - 1944) quote: That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Rich Cook info: "" quote: "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Brooks info: "" quote: "Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Brooks info: "" quote: " The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Brooks info: "" quote: " Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Fred Brooks info: "" quote: " The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: " Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: " Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse). " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery info: "" quote: " Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Fowler info: "" quote: " Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edsger Dijkstra info: "" quote: Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: James Bach info: "" quote: " Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald E. Knuth info: "" quote: " Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it . " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Glenford Myers info: "" quote: " We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project to uncover the errors that were made because we rushed through the design process" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niklaus Wirth info: "" quote: " Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niklaus Wirth info: "" quote: " Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer\xE2\x80\x99s standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niklaus Wirth info: "" quote: " The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niklaus Wirth info: "" quote: " A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niklaus Wirth info: "" quote: " Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Niklaus Wirth info: "" quote: "Wirth's law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gerald Weinberg info: "" quote: " If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilisation." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gerald Weinberg info: "" quote: " Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers think it is good for programmers and programmers hate it!." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Gerald Weinberg info: "" quote: " Managers often form a [programming] team which by any reasonable judgment cannot perform the designated task in the allotted time. Inevitably the team is given an extension when the time limit is reached and the reality must be faced. Had it been faced earlier, the work could probably have been organized differently - in recognition of the longer schedule - and thus produced, in the end, more quickly." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kreitzberg and Shneiderman info: "" quote: " Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald E. Knuth info: "" quote: " Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to to, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: "" quote: " Good code is its own best documentation. As you\xE2\x80\x99re about to add a comment, ask yourself, \xE2\x80\x98How can I improve the code so that this comment isn\xE2\x80\x99t needed?\xE2\x80\x99 Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: "" quote: " The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: "" quote: " It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: "" quote: " Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: "" quote: " A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: "" quote: " Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: "" quote: " Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: "" quote: " It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: "" quote: " Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: "" quote: " In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald E. Knuth info: "" quote: " ... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bjarne Stroustrup info: "" quote: " An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bjarne Stroustrup info: "" quote: " Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ralph Johnson info: "" quote: " Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward Yourdon info: Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer quote: " If you think your management doesn\xE2\x80\x99t know what it\xE2\x80\x99s doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bjarne Stroustrup info: "" quote: " The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry Wall info: "" quote: " Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry Wall info: "" quote: " Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry Wall info: "" quote: " We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry Wall info: "" quote: " I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "" quote: " Theory is when you know something, but it doesn\xE2\x80\x99t work. Practice is when something works, but you don\xE2\x80\x99t know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don\xE2\x80\x99t know why." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: H. L. Mencken info: "" quote: " For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Francis Glassborow info: "" quote: " Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan M. Turing info: "" quote: " Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kernighan and Plauger info: "" quote: " Don\xE2\x80\x99t document bad code -- rewrite it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C.A.R. Hoare info: "" quote: " The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C.A.R. Hoare info: "" quote: " There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C.A.R. Hoare info: "" quote: " Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C.A.R. Hoare info: "" quote: " You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy info: "" quote: " The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Gall info: "" quote: " A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Robbins info: "" quote: " Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer\xE2\x80\x99s pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: C.A.R. Hoare info: "" quote: " Inside every large program, there is a small program trying to get out." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Abelson and Sussman info: "" quote: " Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: " The software isn't finished until the last user is dead. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "" quote: It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: " The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: " Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over?. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: " The goal of product management is customer satisfaction. The product management role is positioned to achieve this by acting as the customer advocate to the team and as the team advocate to the customer. It is important to distinguish between the customer and the end user\xE2\x80\x94the customer is the one who pays for the product while the end user is the one who uses the product. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: " The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: " Re-use before you buy before you build. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: " Better train people and risk they leave - than do nothing and risk they stay. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: " There is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Malcolm P Atkinson info: "" quote: " Building large applications is still really difficult. Making them serve an organisation well for many years is almost impossible. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeff Atwood info: "" quote: " We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Terry Baker info: "" quote: " A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Kent Beck info: "" quote: " Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treament." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Boris Beizer info: about publicizing test cases to programmers, in "Software testing techniques" quote: " A good threat is worth a thousand tests. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Boris Beizer info: in "Software testing techniques" quote: " More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known. The thinking that must be done to create a useful test can discover and eliminate bugs before they are coded - indeed, test-design thinking can discover and eliminate bugs at every stage in the creation of software, from conception to specification, to design, coding and the rest. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Boris Beizer info: in "Software testing techniques" quote: " If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Boris Beizer info: " in \"Software testing techniques\"" quote: " Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edward V. Berard info: "" quote: " Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Barry Boehm info: "" quote: " Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Barry Boehm info: "" quote: " Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mike Bongiovanni info: "" quote: " Just because you don't know a technology, doesn't mean you won't be called upon to work with it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frederick P. Brooks info: in "No silver bullet" quote: " The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frederick P. Brooks info: in "No silver bullet" quote: " A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Frederick P. Brooks info: "" quote: " Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bruce Brown info: "" quote: " Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brad Kain info: quoted in "UML Distilled" quote: Analysis occurs only when the domain expert is in the room (otherwise it is pseudo-analysis) rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Fowler info: in "UML Distilled" quote: " I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Martin Fowler info: in "UML Distilled" quote: When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dave Thomas info: "" quote: " All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Austin Freeman info: "" quote: " Simplicity is the soul of efficiency." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dennis Ritchie info: "" quote: ... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve McConnell info: from "Code Complete" quote: " It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald E. Knuth info: "" quote: You're bound to be unhappy if you optimize everything. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Donald E. Knuth info: "" quote: " Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pragmatic Programmer info: "" quote: "A good way to stay flexible is to write less code. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bill Gates info: "" quote: " Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Norm Schryer info: "" quote: " If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jerry Coffin info: on indentation quote: " ... nearly everybody is convinced that every style but their own is ugly and unreadable. Leave out the \"but their own\" and they're probably right..." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric S. Raymond info: "" quote: " Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edsger Dijkstra info: "" quote: " Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: M.A. Jackson info: "" quote: " Rules of Optimization:\n\ Rule 1: Don't do it.\n\ Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edsger Dijkstra info: "" quote: " The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: David Parnas info: "" quote: " Copy and paste is a design error." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: " Eagleson's law" info: "" quote: Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ted Nelson info: "" quote: " Any fool can use a computer. Many do." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bertrand Meyer info: "" quote: " Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brian W. Kernighan info: "" quote: " Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: John Johnson info: "" quote: " First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jon Ribbens info: "" quote: " PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs info: "" quote: "Remember that there is no code faster than no code. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dennis Ritchie info: "" quote: A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: " Edsger W. Dijkstra" info: "" quote: ... the purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Ludwig Wittgenstein info: "" quote: "The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Perlis info: "" quote: Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses remove it. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Edsger W. Dijkstra info: "" quote: "...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. .... Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bjarne Stroustrup info: "" quote: There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Richard Pattis info: "" quote: "If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: J. D. Horton info: "" quote: "Nothing resolves design issues like an implementation. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut info: "" quote: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Henry Spencer info: "" quote: If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stewart Brand info: "" quote: Once a new technology starts rolling, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan J. Perlis info: "" quote: There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Bjarne Stroustrup info: "" quote: C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows your whole leg off. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Dennis Ritchie info: "" quote: UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Alan Perlis info: "" quote: When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Damian Conway info: "" quote: C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Putt's Law info: "" quote: "Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage. Those who manage what they do not understand." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Jeff Polk info: "" quote: "There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: "Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Mark Gibbs info: "" quote: "No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "" quote: "It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry Wall info: "" quote: A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Brian Hook info: about Perl quote: "I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_ " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Eric S. Raymond info: "" quote: "With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Larry Wall info: "" quote: "The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: "If a million monkeys were typing on computers, one of them will eventually write a Java program. The rest of them will write Perl programs. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Doug Gwyn info: "" quote: " Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing clever things." rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "" quote: "Computers are high-speed idiots, programmed by low-speed idiots " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "" quote: "You know you're on the right track with code changes when you spend the majority of your time deleting code. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Koenig/Moo info: Accelerated C++ quote: "The key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "" quote: "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Unknown info: "" quote: Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Linus Torvalds info: "" quote: Avoiding complexity reduces bugs. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pat Rice info: "" quote: "If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0 " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Steve Jobs info: "" quote: "One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching. " rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Catherine Aird info: "" quote: If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: "And the users exclaimed with a laugh and a taunt: \"It's just what we asked for but not what we want.\"" rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Anonymous info: "" quote: There are 10 kinds of people in this world....Those who understand binary and those who don't. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: L. Peter Deutsch info: "" quote: To iterate is human, to recurse divine. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Piet Hein info: "" quote: |- The road to wisdom? Well its plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Stan Kelly-Bootle info: "" quote: Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Pablo Picasso info: "" quote: Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: "Alfr\xC3\xA9d R\xC3\xA9nyi" info: "(also attributed to Paul Erd\xC3\xB6s)" quote: A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: William Arthur Ward info: "" quote: The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. rating: 0 tags: [] - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching" info: "" quote: | Complete Nature is complete because it does not serve itself. The sage places himself after and finds himself before, Ignores his desire and finds himself content. He is complete because he does not serve himself. rating: 0 tags: - tao - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching" info: "" quote: | Motion and Use The motion of the Way is to return; The use of the Way is to accept; All things come from the Way, And the Way comes from nothing. rating: 0 tags: - tao - !ruby/object:Quote author: Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching" info: "" quote: | Limitation Who recognizes his limitations is healthy; Who ignores his limitations is sick. The sage recognizes this sickness as a limitation. And so becomes immune. rating: 0 tags: - tao - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance\n to the State.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " It (the art of war) is a matter of life and death, a road either\n to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry\n which can on no account be neglected.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The art of war, then, is governed by five constant\n factors, to be taken into account in one's deliberations.\n These are: (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth;\n (4) The Commander; (5) Method and discipline.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete\n accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him\n regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat,\n times and seasons.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Earth comprises distances, great and small;\n danger and security; open ground and narrow passes;\n the chances of life and death.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom,\n sincerely, benevolence, courage and strictness.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " By method and discipline are to be understood\n the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions,\n the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance\n of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the\n control of military expenditure.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " These five heads should be familiar to every general: \n he who knows them will be victorious; he who knows them\n not will fail.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts\n upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! \n The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it,\n will suffer defeat:--let such a one be dismissed!\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " While heading the profit of my counsel,\n avail yourself also of any helpful circumstances\n over and beyond the ordinary rules.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " According as circumstances are favorable,\n one should modify one's plans.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " All warfare is based on deception.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable;\n when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we\n are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away;\n when far away, we must make him believe we are near.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder,\n and crush him.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. \n If he is in superior strength, evade him.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to\n irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. \n If his forces are united, separate them.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where\n you are not expected.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " These military devices, leading to victory,\n must not be divulged beforehand.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When you engage in actual fighting, if victory\n is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and\n their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town,\n you will exhaust your strength.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources\n of the State will not be equal to the strain.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped,\n your strength exhausted and your treasure spent,\n other chieftains will spring up to take advantage\n of your extremity. Then no man, however wise,\n will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war,\n cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " There is no instance of a country having benefited\n from prolonged warfare.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted\n with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand\n the profitable way of carrying it on.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy,\n neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Bring war material with you from home, but forage\n on the enemy. Thus the army will have food enough\n for its needs.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Poverty of the State exchequer causes an army\n to be maintained by contributions from a distance. \n Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes\n the people to be impoverished.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On the other hand, the proximity of an army causes\n prices to go up; and high prices cause the people's\n substance to be drained away.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When their substance is drained away, the peasantry\n will be afflicted by heavy exactions.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging\n on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions\n is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise\n a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty\n from one's own store.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must\n be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from\n defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Therefore in chariot fighting, when ten or more chariots\n have been taken, those should be rewarded who took the first. \n Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy,\n and the chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours. \n The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " This is called, using the conquered foe to augment\n one's own strength.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In war, then, let your great object be victory,\n not lengthy campaigns.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus it may be known that the leader of armies\n is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it\n depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best\n thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact;\n to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is\n better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it,\n to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire\n than to destroy them.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles\n is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists\n in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus the highest form of generalship is to\n balk the enemy's plans; the next best is to prevent\n the junction of the enemy's forces; the next in\n order is to attack the enemy's army in the field;\n and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The rule is, not to besiege walled cities if it\n can possibly be avoided. The preparation of mantlets,\n movable shelters, and various implements of war, will take\n up three whole months; and the piling up of mounds over\n against the walls will take three months more.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The general, unable to control his irritation,\n will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants,\n with the result that one-third of his men are slain,\n while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous\n effects of a siege.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's\n troops without any fighting; he captures their cities\n without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom\n without lengthy operations in the field.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery\n of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph\n will be complete. This is the method of attacking by stratagem.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten\n to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one,\n to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army\n into two.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If equally matched, we can offer battle;\n if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy;\n if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence, though an obstinate fight may be made\n by a small force, in the end it must be captured\n by the larger force.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Now the general is the bulwark of the State;\n if the bulwark is complete at all points; the State will\n be strong; if the bulwark is defective, the State will\n be weak.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " But when the army is restless and distrustful,\n trouble is sure to come from the other feudal princes. \n This is simply bringing anarchy into the army, and flinging\n victory away.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence the saying: If you know the enemy\n and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a\n hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy,\n for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. \n If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will\n succumb in every battle.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old first put\n themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then\n waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our\n own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy\n is provided by the enemy himself.\n Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat,\n but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer\n without being able to do it.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Security against defeat implies defensive tactics;\n ability to defeat the enemy means taking the offensive.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient\n strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The general who is skilled in defense hides in the\n most secret recesses of the earth; he who is skilled in\n attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven. \n Thus on the one hand we have ability to protect ourselves;\n on the other, a victory that is complete.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " To see victory only when it is within the ken\n of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight\n and conquer and the whole Empire says, \"Well done!\"\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength;\n to see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight;\n to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " What the ancients called a clever fighter is\n one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence his victories bring him neither reputation\n for wisdom nor credit for courage.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " He wins his battles by making no mistakes. \n Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty\n of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is\n already defeated.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence the skillful fighter puts himself into\n a position which makes defeat impossible, and does\n not miss the moment for defeating the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist\n only seeks battle after the victory has been won,\n whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights\n and afterwards looks for victory.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The consummate leader cultivates the moral law,\n and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is\n in his power to control success.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In respect of military method, we have,\n firstly, Measurement; secondly, Estimation of quantity;\n thirdly, Calculation; fourthly, Balancing of chances;\n fifthly, Victory.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Measurement owes its existence to Earth;\n Estimation of quantity to Measurement; Calculation to\n Estimation of quantity; Balancing of chances to Calculation;\n and Victory to Balancing of chances.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " A victorious army opposed to a routed one, is as\n a pound's weight placed in the scale against a single grain.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The onrush of a conquering force is like the bursting\n of pent-up waters into a chasm a thousand fathoms deep.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: The control of a large force\n is the same principle as the control of a few men: \n it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Fighting with a large army under your command\n is nowise different from fighting with a small one: \n it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " To ensure that your whole host may withstand\n the brunt of the enemy's attack and remain unshaken--\n this is effected by maneuvers direct and indirect.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " That the impact of your army may be like a grindstone\n dashed against an egg--this is effected by the science\n of weak points and strong.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In all fighting, the direct method may be used\n for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed\n in order to secure victory.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible\n as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams;\n like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew;\n like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " There are not more than five musical notes,\n yet the combinations of these five give rise to more\n melodies than can ever be heard.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " There are not more than five primary colors\n (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination\n they produce more hues than can ever been seen.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " There are not more than five cardinal tastes\n (sour, acrid, salt, sweet, bitter), yet combinations\n of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In battle, there are not more than two methods\n of attack--the direct and the indirect; yet these two\n in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn. \n It is like moving in a circle--you never come to an end. \n Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination?\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The onset of troops is like the rush of a torrent\n which will even roll stones along in its course.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The quality of decision is like the well-timed\n swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy\n its victim.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Therefore the good fighter will be terrible\n in his onset, and prompt in his decision.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow;\n decision, to the releasing of a trigger.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may\n be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all;\n amid confusion and chaos, your array may be without head\n or tail, yet it will be proof against defeat.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline,\n simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness\n postulates strength.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is\n simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under\n a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy;\n masking strength with weakness is to be effected\n by tactical dispositions.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy\n on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to\n which the enemy will act. He sacrifices something,\n that the enemy may snatch at it.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " By holding out baits, he keeps him on the march;\n then with a body of picked men he lies in wait for him.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined\n energy, and does not require too much from individuals. \n Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize\n combined energy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting\n men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. \n For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain\n motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope;\n if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if\n round-shaped, to go rolling down.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus the energy developed by good fighting men\n is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain\n thousands of feet in height. So much on the subject\n of energy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: Whoever is first in the field and\n awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight;\n whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle\n will arrive exhausted.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on\n the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " By holding out advantages to him, he can cause the enemy\n to approach of his own accord; or, by inflicting damage,\n he can make it impossible for the enemy to draw near.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If the enemy is taking his ease, he can harass him;\n if well supplied with food, he can starve him out;\n if quietly encamped, he can force him to move.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend;\n march swiftly to places where you are not expected.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " An army may march great distances without distress,\n if it marches through country where the enemy is not.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks\n if you only attack places which are undefended.You can\n ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold\n positions that cannot be attacked.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence that general is skillful in attack whose\n opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful\n in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you\n we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible;\n and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " You may advance and be absolutely irresistible,\n if you make for the enemy's weak points; you may retire\n and be safe from pursuit if your movements are more rapid\n than those of the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced\n to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high\n rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack\n some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent\n the enemy from engaging us even though the lines\n of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. \n All we need do is to throw something odd and unaccountable\n in his way.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " By discovering the enemy's dispositions and remaining\n invisible ourselves, we can keep our forces concentrated,\n while the enemy's must be divided.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " We can form a single united body, while the\n enemy must split up into fractions. Hence there will\n be a whole pitted against separate parts of a whole,\n which means that we shall be many to the enemy's few.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " And if we are able thus to attack an inferior force\n with a superior one, our opponents will be in dire straits.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The spot where we intend to fight must not be\n made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare\n against a possible attack at several different points;\n and his forces being thus distributed in many directions,\n the numbers we shall have to face at any given point will\n be proportionately few.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " For should the enemy strengthen his van,\n he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear,\n he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left,\n he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right,\n he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere,\n he will everywhere be weak.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Numerical weakness comes from having to prepare\n against possible attacks; numerical strength, from compelling\n our adversary to make these preparations against us.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Knowing the place and the time of the coming battle,\n we may concentrate from the greatest distances in order\n to fight.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Though according to my estimate the soldiers\n of Yueh exceed our own in number, that shall advantage\n them nothing in the matter of victory. I say then\n that victory can be achieved.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may\n prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover\n his plans and the likelihood of their success.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Rouse him, and learn the principle of his\n activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself,\n so as to find out his vulnerable spots.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Carefully compare the opposing army with your own,\n so that you may know where strength is superabundant\n and where it is deficient.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch\n you can attain is to conceal them; conceal your dispositions,\n and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies,\n from the machinations of the wisest brains.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " How victory may be produced for them out of the enemy's\n own tactics--that is what the multitude cannot comprehend.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer,\n but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory\n is evolved.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Do not repeat the tactics which have gained\n you one victory, but let your methods be regulated\n by the infinite variety of circumstances.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its\n natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong\n and to strike at what is weak.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Water shapes its course according to the nature\n of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works\n out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape,\n so in warfare there are no constant conditions.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " He who can modify his tactics in relation to his\n opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called\n a heaven-born captain.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The five elements (water, fire, wood, metal, earth)\n are not always equally predominant; the four seasons make\n way for each other in turn. There are short days and long;\n the moon has its periods of waning and waxing.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: In war, the general receives his\n commands from the sovereign.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Having collected an army and concentrated his forces,\n he must blend and harmonize the different elements thereof\n before pitching his camp.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " After that, comes tactical maneuvering,\n than which there is nothing more difficult. \n The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists\n in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus, to take a long and circuitous route,\n after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting\n after him, to contrive to reach the goal before him,\n shows knowledge of the artifice of DEVIATION.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Maneuvering with an army is advantageous;\n with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If you set a fully equipped army in march in order\n to snatch an advantage, the chances are that you will be\n too late. On the other hand, to detach a flying column\n for the purpose involves the sacrifice of its baggage\n and stores.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus, if you order your men to roll up their\n buff-coats, and make forced marches without halting day\n or night, covering double the usual distance at a stretch,\n doing a hundred LI in order to wrest an advantage,\n the leaders of all your three divisions will fall into\n the hands of the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The stronger men will be in front, the jaded\n ones will fall behind, and on this plan only one-tenth\n of your army will reach its destination.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If you march fifty LI in order to outmaneuver\n the enemy, you will lose the leader of your first division,\n and only half your force will reach the goal.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If you march thirty LI with the same object,\n two-thirds of your army will arrive.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " We may take it then that an army without its\n baggage-train is lost; without provisions it is lost;\n without bases of supply it is lost.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " We cannot enter into alliances until we are\n acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " We are not fit to lead an army on the march\n unless we are familiar with the face of the country--its\n mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices,\n its marshes and swamps.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " We shall be unable to turn natural advantage\n to account unless we make use of local guides.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In war, practice dissimulation, and you will succeed.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Whether to concentrate or to divide your troops,\n must be decided by circumstances.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Let your rapidity be that of the wind,\n your compactness that of the forest.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In raiding and plundering be like fire,\n is immovability like a mountain.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night,\n and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When you plunder a countryside, let the spoil be\n divided amongst your men; when you capture new territory,\n cut it up into allotments for the benefit of the soldiery.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " He will conquer who has learnt the artifice\n of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The Book of Army Management says: On the field\n of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough: \n hence the institution of gongs and drums. Nor can ordinary\n objects be seen clearly enough: hence the institution\n of banners and flags.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means\n whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused\n on one particular point.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The host thus forming a single united body,\n is it impossible either for the brave to advance alone,\n or for the cowardly to retreat alone. This is the art\n of handling large masses of men.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In night-fighting, then, make much use of signal-fires\n and drums, and in fighting by day, of flags and banners,\n as a means of influencing the ears and eyes of your army.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " A whole army may be robbed of its spirit;\n a commander-in-chief may be robbed of his presence of mind.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning;\n by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening,\n his mind is bent only on returning to camp.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when\n its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish\n and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Disciplined and calm, to await the appearance\n of disorder and hubbub amongst the enemy:--this is the art\n of retaining self-possession.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " To be near the goal while the enemy is still\n far from it, to wait at ease while the enemy is\n toiling and struggling, to be well-fed while the enemy\n is famished:--this is the art of husbanding one's strength.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " To refrain from intercepting an enemy whose\n banners are in perfect order, to refrain from attacking\n an army drawn up in calm and confident array:--this\n is the art of studying circumstances.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " It is a military axiom not to advance uphill\n against the enemy, nor to oppose him when he comes downhill.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Do not pursue an enemy who simulates flight;\n do not attack soldiers whose temper is keen.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. \n Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. \n Do not press a desperate foe too hard.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Such is the art of warfare.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: In war, the general receives\n his commands from the sovereign, collects his army\n and concentrates his forces\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When in difficult country, do not encamp. In country\n where high roads intersect, join hands with your allies. \n Do not linger in dangerously isolated positions. \n In hemmed-in situations, you must resort to stratagem. \n In desperate position, you must fight.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " There are roads which must not be followed,\n armies which must be not attacked, towns which must\n not be besieged, positions which must not be contested,\n commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The general who thoroughly understands the advantages\n that accompany variation of tactics knows how to handle\n his troops.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The general who does not understand these, may be well\n acquainted with the configuration of the country, yet he\n will not be able to turn his knowledge to practical account.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " So, the student of war who is unversed in the art\n of war of varying his plans, even though he be acquainted\n with the Five Advantages, will fail to make the best use\n of his men.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence in the wise leader's plans, considerations of\n advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If our expectation of advantage be tempered in\n this way, we may succeed in accomplishing the essential\n part of our schemes.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties\n we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate\n ourselves from misfortune.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Reduce the hostile chiefs by inflicting damage\n on them; and make trouble for them, and keep them\n constantly engaged; hold out specious allurements,\n and make them rush to any given point.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The art of war teaches us to rely not on the\n likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness\n to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking,\n but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " These are the five besetting sins of a general,\n ruinous to the conduct of war.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When an army is overthrown and its leader slain,\n the cause will surely be found among these five\n dangerous faults. Let them be a subject of meditation.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: We come now to the question of\n encamping the army, and observing signs of the enemy. \n Pass quickly over mountains, and keep in the neighborhood\n of valleys.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Camp in high places, facing the sun. Do not climb\n heights in order to fight. So much for mountain warfare.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " After crossing a river, you should get far away\n from it.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When an invading force crosses a river in its\n onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream.\n It will be best to let half the army get across,\n and then deliver your attack.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If you are anxious to fight, you should not go\n to meet the invader near a river which he has to cross.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Moor your craft higher up than the enemy, and facing\n the sun. Do not move up-stream to meet the enemy. \n So much for river warfare.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In crossing salt-marshes, your sole concern\n should be to get over them quickly, without any delay.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If forced to fight in a salt-marsh, you should\n have water and grass near you, and get your back\n to a clump of trees. So much for operations in salt-marches.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In dry, level country, take up an easily accessible\n position with rising ground to your right and on your rear,\n so that the danger may be in front, and safety lie behind. \n So much for campaigning in flat country.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " These are the four useful branches of military\n knowledge which enabled the Yellow Emperor to vanquish\n four several sovereigns.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " All armies prefer high ground to low and sunny\n places to dark.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If you are careful of your men, and camp on hard\n ground, the army will be free from disease of every kind,\n and this will spell victory.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When you come to a hill or a bank, occupy the\n sunny side, with the slope on your right rear. \n Thus you will at once act for the benefit of your soldiers\n and utilize the natural advantages of the ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When, in consequence of heavy rains up-country,\n a river which you wish to ford is swollen and flecked\n with foam, you must wait until it subsides.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Country in which there are precipitous cliffs\n with torrents running between, deep natural hollows,\n confined places, tangled thickets, quagmires and crevasses,\n should be left with all possible speed and not approached.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " While we keep away from such places, we should\n get the enemy to approach them; while we face them,\n we should let the enemy have them on his rear.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If in the neighborhood of your camp there should\n be any hilly country, ponds surrounded by aquatic grass,\n hollow basins filled with reeds, or woods with thick\n undergrowth, they must be carefully routed out and searched;\n for these are places where men in ambush or insidious\n spies are likely to be lurking.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When the enemy is close at hand and remains quiet,\n he is relying on the natural strength of his position.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When he keeps aloof and tries to provoke a battle,\n he is anxious for the other side to advance.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If his place of encampment is easy of access,\n he is tendering a bait.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Movement amongst the trees of a forest shows that the\n enemy is advancing. The appearance of a number of screens\n in the midst of thick grass means that the enemy wants to \n make us suspicious.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The rising of birds in their flight is the sign\n of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden\n attack is coming.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Humble words and increased preparations are signs\n that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language\n and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he\n will retreat.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When the light chariots come out first and take\n up a position on the wings, it is a sign that the enemy\n is forming for battle.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant\n indicate a plot.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When there is much running about and the soldiers\n fall into rank, it means that the critical moment has come.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When some are seen advancing and some retreating,\n it is a lure.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears,\n they are faint from want of food.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If those who are sent to draw water begin\n by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If the enemy sees an advantage to be gained and\n makes no effort to secure it, the soldiers are exhausted.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If birds gather on any spot, it is unoccupied. \n Clamor by night betokens nervousness.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's\n authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted\n about, sedition is afoot. If the officers are angry,\n it means that the men are weary.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When an army feeds its horses with grain and kills\n its cattle for food, and when the men do not hang their\n cooking-pots over the camp-fires, showing that they\n will not return to their tents, you may know that they\n are determined to fight to the death.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The sight of men whispering together in small\n knots or speaking in subdued tones points to disaffection\n amongst the rank and file.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Too frequent rewards signify that the enemy is\n at the end of his resources; too many punishments betray\n a condition of dire distress.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright\n at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths,\n it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain\n facing ours for a long time without either joining\n battle or taking themselves off again, the situation\n is one that demands great vigilance and circumspection.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If our troops are no more in number than the enemy,\n that is amply sufficient; it only means that no direct attack\n can be made. What we can do is simply to concentrate all\n our available strength, keep a close watch on the enemy,\n and obtain reinforcements.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " He who exercises no forethought but makes light\n of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If soldiers are punished before they have grown\n attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and,\n unless submissive, then will be practically useless. \n If, when the soldiers have become attached to you,\n punishments are not enforced, they will still be useless.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Therefore soldiers must be treated in the first\n instance with humanity, but kept under control by means\n of iron discipline. This is a certain road to victory.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If in training soldiers commands are habitually\n enforced, the army will be well-disciplined; if not,\n its discipline will be bad.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If a general shows confidence in his men but always\n insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: We may distinguish six kinds of terrain,\n to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground;\n (3) temporizing ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous\n heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides\n is called accessible.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " With regard to ground of this nature, be before\n the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots,\n and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you\n will be able to fight with advantage.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Ground which can be abandoned but is hard\n to re-occupy is called entangling.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " From a position of this sort, if the enemy\n is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. \n But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you\n fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible,\n disaster will ensue.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When the position is such that neither side will gain\n by making the first move, it is called temporizing ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In a position of this sort, even though the enemy\n should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable\n not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing\n the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has\n come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy\n them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await\n the advent of the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Should the army forestall you in occupying a pass,\n do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned,\n but only if it is weakly garrisoned.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " With regard to precipitous heights, if you are\n beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the\n raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If the enemy has occupied them before you,\n do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If you are situated at a great distance from\n the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal,\n it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be\n to your disadvantage.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " These six are the principles connected with Earth. \n The general who has attained a responsible post must be\n careful to study them.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Now an army is exposed to six several calamities,\n not arising from natural causes, but from faults\n for which the general is responsible. These are: \n (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin;\n (5) disorganization; (6) rout.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Other conditions being equal, if one force is\n hurled against another ten times its size, the result\n will be the flight of the former.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When the common soldiers are too strong and\n their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. \n When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers\n too weak, the result is collapse.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate,\n and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account\n from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief\n can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight,\n the result is ruin.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When the general is weak and without authority;\n when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there\n are no fixes duties assigned to officers and men,\n and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner,\n the result is utter disorganization.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's\n strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one,\n or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one,\n and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank,\n the result must be rout.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " These are six ways of courting defeat, which must\n be carefully noted by the general who has attained\n a responsible post.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The natural formation of the country is the soldier's\n best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary,\n of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly\n calculating difficulties, dangers and distances,\n constitutes the test of a great general.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " He who knows these things, and in fighting puts\n his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. \n He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely\n be defeated.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If fighting is sure to result in victory,\n then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it;\n if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not\n fight even at the ruler's bidding.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The general who advances without coveting fame\n and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only\n thought is to protect his country and do good service\n for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Regard your soldiers as your children, and they\n will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them\n as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you\n even unto death.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make\n your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce\n your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: \n then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children;\n they are useless for any practical purpose.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If we know that our own men are in a condition\n to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open\n to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If we know that the enemy is open to attack,\n but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition\n to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If we know that the enemy is open to attack,\n and also know that our men are in a condition to attack,\n but are unaware that the nature of the ground makes\n fighting impracticable, we have still gone only halfway\n towards victory.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion,\n is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never\n at a loss.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and\n know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt;\n if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your\n victory complete.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognizes nine varieties of ground:\n (1) Dispersive ground; (2) facile ground; (3) contentious ground;\n (4) open ground; (5) ground of intersecting highways;\n (6) serious ground; (7) difficult ground; (8) hemmed-in ground;\n (9) desperate ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When a chieftain is fighting in his own territory,\n it is dispersive ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When he has penetrated into hostile territory,\n but to no great distance, it is facile ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Ground the possession of which imports great\n advantage to either side, is contentious ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Ground on which each side has liberty of movement\n is open ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Ground which forms the key to three contiguous states,\n so that he who occupies it first has most of the Empire\n at his command, is a ground of intersecting highways.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When an army has penetrated into the heart of a\n hostile country, leaving a number of fortified cities\n in its rear, it is serious ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Mountain forests, rugged steeps, marshes and fens--all\n country that is hard to traverse: this is difficult ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Ground which is reached through narrow gorges,\n and from which we can only retire by tortuous paths,\n so that a small number of the enemy would suffice to crush\n a large body of our men: this is hemmed in ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Ground on which we can only be saved from\n destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. \n On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground,\n attack not.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. \n On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands\n with your allies.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On serious ground, gather in plunder. \n In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. \n On desperate ground, fight.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Those who were called skillful leaders of old knew\n how to drive a wedge between the enemy's front and rear;\n to prevent co-operation between his large and small divisions;\n to hinder the good troops from rescuing the bad,\n the officers from rallying their men.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When the enemy's men were united, they managed\n to keep them in disorder.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When it was to their advantage, they made\n a forward move; when otherwise, they stopped still.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy\n in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack,\n I should say: \"Begin by seizing something which your\n opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.\"\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of\n the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes,\n and attack unguarded spots.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The following are the principles to be observed\n by an invading force: The further you penetrate into\n a country, the greater will be the solidarity of your troops,\n and thus the defenders will not prevail against you.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Make forays in fertile country in order to supply\n your army with food.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Carefully study the well-being of your men,\n and do not overtax them. Concentrate your energy and hoard\n your strength. Keep your army continually on the move,\n and devise unfathomable plans.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Throw your soldiers into positions whence there\n is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. \n If they will face death, there is nothing they may\n not achieve. Officers and men alike will put forth\n their uttermost strength.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Soldiers when in desperate straits lose\n the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge,\n they will stand firm. If they are in hostile country,\n they will show a stubborn front. If there is no help\n for it, they will fight hard.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus, without waiting to be marshaled, the soldiers\n will be constantly on the qui vive; without waiting to\n be asked, they will do your will; without restrictions,\n they will be faithful; without giving orders, they can\n be trusted.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with\n superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes,\n no calamity need be feared.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If our soldiers are not overburdened with money,\n it is not because they have a distaste for riches;\n if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they\n are disinclined to longevity.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On the day they are ordered out to battle,\n your soldiers may weep, those sitting up bedewing\n their garments, and those lying down letting the tears run\n down their cheeks. But let them once be brought to bay,\n and they will display the courage of a Chu or a Kuei.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The skillful tactician may be likened to the\n shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found\n in the ChUng mountains. Strike at its head, and you\n will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you\n will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle,\n and you will be attacked by head and tail both.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Asked if an army can be made to imitate the shuai-jan,\n I should answer, Yes. For the men of Wu and the men\n of Yueh are enemies; yet if they are crossing a river\n in the same boat and are caught by a storm, they will come\n to each other's assistance just as the left hand helps the right.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence it is not enough to put one's trust\n in the tethering of horses, and the burying of chariot\n wheels in the ground\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The principle on which to manage an army is to set\n up one standard of courage which all must reach.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " How to make the best of both strong and weak--that\n is a question involving the proper use of ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus the skillful general conducts his army just\n as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by\n the hand.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus\n ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " He must be able to mystify his officers and men\n by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them\n in total ignorance.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " By altering his arrangements and changing\n his plans, he keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. \n By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,\n he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " At the critical moment, the leader of an army\n acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks\n away the ladder behind him. He carries his men deep\n into hostile territory before he shows his hand.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " He burns his boats and breaks his cooking-pots;\n like a shepherd driving a flock of sheep, he drives\n his men this way and that, and nothing knows whither he\n is going.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " To muster his host and bring it into danger:--this\n may be termed the business of the general.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The different measures suited to the nine\n varieties of ground; the expediency of aggressive or\n defensive tactics; and the fundamental laws of human nature: \n these are things that must most certainly be studied.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When invading hostile territory, the general\n principle is, that penetrating deeply brings cohesion;\n penetrating but a short way means dispersion.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When you leave your own country behind, and take\n your army across neighborhood territory, you find yourself\n on critical ground. When there are means of communication\n on all four sides, the ground is one of intersecting highways.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When you penetrate deeply into a country, it is\n serious ground. When you penetrate but a little way,\n it is facile ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When you have the enemy's strongholds on your rear,\n and narrow passes in front, it is hemmed-in ground. \n When there is no place of refuge at all, it is desperate ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Therefore, on dispersive ground, I would inspire\n my men with unity of purpose. On facile ground, I would\n see that there is close connection between all parts\n of my army.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On contentious ground, I would hurry up my rear.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On open ground, I would keep a vigilant eye\n on my defenses. On ground of intersecting highways,\n I would consolidate my alliances.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On serious ground, I would try to ensure\n a continuous stream of supplies. On difficult ground,\n I would keep pushing on along the road.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On hemmed-in ground, I would block any way\n of retreat. On desperate ground, I would proclaim\n to my soldiers the hopelessness of saving their lives.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " For it is the soldier's disposition to offer\n an obstinate resistance when surrounded, to fight hard\n when he cannot help himself, and to obey promptly when he\n has fallen into danger.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " To be ignored of any one of the following four\n or five principles does not befit a warlike prince.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When a warlike prince attacks a powerful state,\n his generalship shows itself in preventing the concentration\n of the enemy's forces. He overawes his opponents,\n and their allies are prevented from joining against him.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence he does not strive to ally himself with all\n and sundry, nor does he foster the power of other states. \n He carries out his own secret designs, keeping his\n antagonists in awe. Thus he is able to capture their\n cities and overthrow their kingdoms.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Bestow rewards without regard to rule,\n issue orders without regard to previous arrangements;\n and you will be able to handle a whole army as though\n you had to do with but a single man.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Confront your soldiers with the deed itself;\n never let them know your design. When the outlook is bright,\n bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when\n the situation is gloomy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive;\n plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off\n in safety.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " For it is precisely when a force has fallen into\n harm's way that is capable of striking a blow for victory.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Success in warfare is gained by carefully\n accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " By persistently hanging on the enemy's flank, we shall\n succeed in the long run in killing the commander-in-chief.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " This is called ability to accomplish a thing\n by sheer cunning.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " On the day that you take up your command,\n block the frontier passes, destroy the official tallies,\n and stop the passage of all emissaries.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Be stern in the council-chamber, so that you\n may control the situation.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Forestall your opponent by seizing what he holds dear,\n and subtly contrive to time his arrival on the ground.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Walk in the path defined by rule, and accommodate\n yourself to the enemy until you can fight a decisive battle.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden,\n until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate\n the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late\n for the enemy to oppose you.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Sun Tzu said: There are five ways of attacking\n with fire. The first is to burn soldiers in their camp;\n the second is to burn stores; the third is to burn\n baggage trains; the fourth is to burn arsenals and magazines;\n the fifth is to hurl dropping fire amongst the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In order to carry out an attack, we must have\n means available. The material for raising fire should\n always be kept in readiness.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " There is a proper season for making attacks with fire,\n and special days for starting a conflagration.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The proper season is when the weather is very dry;\n the special days are those when the moon is in the\n constellations of the Sieve, the Wall, the Wing\n or the Cross-bar; for these four are all days of rising wind.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In attacking with fire, one should be prepared\n to meet five possible developments:\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " (1) When fire breaks out inside to enemy's camp,\n respond at once with an attack from without.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " (2) If there is an outbreak of fire, but the enemy's\n soldiers remain quiet, bide your time and do not attack.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " (3) When the force of the flames has reached its height,\n follow it up with an attack, if that is practicable;\n if not, stay where you are.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " (4) If it is possible to make an assault with fire\n from without, do not wait for it to break out within,\n but deliver your attack at a favorable moment.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " (5) When you start a fire, be to windward of it. \n Do not attack from the leeward.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " A wind that rises in the daytime lasts long,\n but a night breeze soon falls.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " In every army, the five developments connected with\n fire must be known, the movements of the stars calculated,\n and a watch kept for the proper days.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence those who use fire as an aid to the attack show intelligence;\n those who use water as an aid to the attack gain an accession of strength.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " By means of water, an enemy may be intercepted,\n but not robbed of all his belongings.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his\n battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating\n the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time\n and general stagnation.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his\n plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Move not unless you see an advantage; use not\n your troops unless there is something to be gained;\n fight not unless the position is critical.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " No ruler should put troops into the field merely\n to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight\n a battle simply out of pique.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If it is to your advantage, make a forward move;\n if not, stay where you are.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may\n be succeeded by content.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can\n never come again into being; nor can the dead ever\n be brought back to life.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful,\n and the good general full of caution. This is the way\n to keep a country at peace and an army intact.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hostile armies may face each other for years,\n striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. \n This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's\n condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred\n ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height\n of inhumanity.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " One who acts thus is no leader of men, no present\n help to his sovereign, no master of victory.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good\n general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond\n the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits;\n it cannot be obtained inductively from experience,\n nor by any deductive calculation.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only\n be obtained from other men.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence the use of spies, of whom there are five classes: \n (1) Local spies; (2) inward spies; (3) converted spies;\n (4) doomed spies; (5) surviving spies.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " When these five kinds of spy are all at work,\n none can discover the secret system. This is called \"divine\n manipulation of the threads.\" It is the sovereign's\n most precious faculty.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Having local spies means employing the services\n of the inhabitants of a district.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Having inward spies, making use of officials\n of the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Having converted spies, getting hold of the enemy's\n spies and using them for our own purposes.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Having doomed spies, doing certain things openly\n for purposes of deception, and allowing our spies to know\n of them and report them to the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Surviving spies, finally, are those who bring\n back news from the enemy's camp.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence it is that which none in the whole army are\n more intimate relations to be maintained than with spies. \n None should be more liberally rewarded. In no other\n business should greater secrecy be preserved.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain\n intuitive sagacity.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " They cannot be properly managed without benevolence\n and straightforwardness.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make\n certain of the truth of their reports.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every\n kind of business.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy\n before the time is ripe, he must be put to death together\n with the man to whom the secret was told.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Whether the object be to crush an army, to storm\n a city, or to assassinate an individual, it is always\n necessary to begin by finding out the names of the attendants,\n the aides-de-camp, and door-keepers and sentries of the general\n in command. Our spies must be commissioned to ascertain these.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us\n must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and\n comfortably housed. Thus they will become converted\n spies and available for our service.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " It is through the information brought by the\n converted spy that we are able to acquire and employ\n local and inward spies.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " It is owing to his information, again, that we can\n cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Lastly, it is by his information that the surviving\n spy can be used on appointed occasions.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties\n is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only\n be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. \n Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated\n with the utmost liberality.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Of old, the rise of the Yin dynasty was due to I\n Chih who had served under the Hsia. Likewise, the rise\n of the Chou dynasty was due to Lu Ya who had served\n under the Yin.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow - !ruby/object:Quote author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu info: "" quote: " Hence it is only the enlightened ruler and the\n wise general who will use the highest intelligence of\n the army for purposes of spying and thereby they achieve\n great results. Spies are a most important element in water,\n because on them depends an army's ability to move.\n" rating: 0 tags: - taow