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Does a frog know that it has a Latin name?

--Kamalkumar Majumdar (translated from the Bengali).

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It has long been my personal view that the separation of 
practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. 
Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software 
and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people 
who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental 
design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical 
and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact 
with real computing. One of the central aims of the Programming 
Research Group as a teaching and research group has been to set up an 
atmosphere in which this separation cannot happen.

--Christopher Strachey (1916-1975)
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing/strachey.html

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The conventional approach tells you that
the best way to tell a story is to leave out all
except those elements which are directly
related to the story, while the master's
work clearly indicates that if your theme is
strong and simple, you can include a
hundred little apparently irrelevant details
which instead of obscuring the theme, only
help to intensify it by contrast, and in addition create 
the illusion of actuality better. 

--Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) 
[Letter to a friend after watching Vittorio De Sica's 
"The Bicycle Thief"]

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The issue of freedom raises the question of experience and upbringing.
Modern man in his struggle for freedom demands personal liberation in 
the sense of license for the individual to do anything he wants. But that
is an illusion of freedom, and man will only be heading for disenchantment 
if he pursues it. It takes a long, hard struggle on the part of the 
individual to liberate his spiritual energies. Upbringing has to be
superseded by self-discipline: otherwise he will only be capable of
understanding his newly acquired liberty in terms of vulgar consumerism.

--Andrey Tarkovsky, "Sculpting in Time" translated from the Russian
by Kitty Hunter-Blair 

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The man who is truly free cannot be so in a selfish sense. Nor can
individual freedom be the result of communal effort. Our future depends
on no one but ourselves. Yet we have become used to paying for everything
with other people's toil and other people's suffering --- never our own.
We refuse to take into account the simple fact that 'everything is
connected in this world'; nothing can ever be fortuitous since we are
endowed with free will and the right to choose between good and evil.

Naturally the opportunities for asserting your free will are limited
by the will of others, but it must none the less be said that the
failure to be free is always the result of inner cowardice and 
passivity, of lack of determination in the assertion of your will in 
accordance with the voice of conscience.

--Andrey Tarkovsky, "Sculpting in Time" translated from the Russian
by Kitty Hunter-Blair

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You cannot evaluate what's happening in an economy or a society without 
looking at people who are on the down side and not just those who are 
doing well and prospering.

--Amartya Sen, Economics Nobel Laureate, 1998. 

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The things that will destroy us are:

politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work;
knowledge without character;
business without morality;
science without humanity,
and worship without sacrifice.

-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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The only salvation is to work like a labourer
and not have delusions of grandeur.

-- Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

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To create emotion not with poignant images, but through the association 
of images which makes them both striking and poignant.

--Robert Bresson (1901-1999)
Notes sur le cinematographe - 1950 / 1958

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Southern trees bear a strange fruit 
Blood on the leaves, and blood at the root 
Black body swinging in the southern breeze 
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. 

Pastoral scene from the gallant South. 
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth 
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh 
And the sudden smell of burning flesh. 

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck 
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck 
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop. 
Here is a strange and bitter crop!

--Strange Fruit, written by Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol)
and sung by Billie Holliday (1915-1959).

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Property is nuisance.

Paul Erdos, mathematician (1913-1996).

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While the average U.S. citizen had 5.27 hectares of land and sea
available in his country to meet his needs, he consumed the product of
9.7 hectares by using what was produced elsewhere to make up the gap.

And while the average African consumed natural resources from only
1.36 hectares out of the 1.55 available on the continent, the average
West European used the product of 5.0 hectares -- 2.84 hectares more
than the region has.

Living Planet Report 2002, WWF-International

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The mathematical theory of black holes is a subject of immense complexity;
but its study has convinced me of the basic truth of the ancient mottoes,

The simple is the seal of the true 
and
Beauty is the splendour of truth.

Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar, physicist (1910-1995).

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Revenge would be easy, but it is far more valuable 
in my opinion to address this problem of terrorism 
with enough honesty to question our own responsibility 
as nations and as individuals for the rise of terrorism. 

Mariane Pearl, February 22, 2002.