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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Law
Nothing
Difficult
Increases
Software
Entropy
Weighs
Like
Always
Grasp
Thermodynamics
Second
The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
Orison Swett Marden
Great
You
Better
Opportunity
Inside
See
Great Opportunity
Part
Him
Your
Who
Grasp
Right
Belongs
Chance
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nature
Eyes
Backwards
Past
Beginning
Else
Our
Everything
We Cannot
Prolonged
Critical
Woven
Threads
Something
Something Else
Absolute
Indivisible
Scientifically
Endless
Anything
Cannot
Which
Speaking
Grasp
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson
Dyslexic
School
Old
Understanding
Would
Something
Had
Failed
Schoolwork
Years
Tests
Left
Whatsoever
Not Interested
Interested
Certainly
Reasons
Grasp
John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.
Richard Dreyfuss
People
Aim
Aim High
Our
Way
High
John
John Kennedy
Like
Reach
Said
Lincoln
Than
American
Did
American People
Really
Should
Farther
Grasp
Extend
Kennedy
When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back.
Brian O'Driscoll
Life
You
Few
Enjoy
Back
Say
Those
Something
More
Adult
Adult Life
Because
Years
Off
Than
Get
Done
Going
Want
Then
Much
Your
Grasp
Whole
Sudden
Switch
Last
Last Few Years
Third
I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
A. R. Rahman
You
Mind
Active
Out
See
Unpredictable
Something
More
Unrelated
Like
Doing
Scoring
Just
While
Then
Working
Productive
Grasp
Element
Film
Start
Third
An IPL match may be decided when the ball passes inches beyond the grasp of a fielder on the boundary or when a direct hit catches a batsman inches short of the crease.
AB de Villiers
Direct
Boundary
Beyond
Match
Ball
Passes
Hit
May
Short
Decided
Inches
Grasp
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
Abdurrahman Wahid
Religion
Value
Islam
Too
Others
Value Systems
Systems
Muslims
Fail
Towards
Knowing
Understand
Which
Lenient
Teaches
Tolerated
Grasp
Many
Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly.
Adam Rickitt
Me
Opportunity
Few
Incredibly
Some
Given
Weeks
Part
Wrong
Firmly
Over
Read
Been
Articles
Get
Want
Frustrating
Fully
Grasp
Last
Appreciate
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
Albert Bandura
Better
Developed
Over
Subjects
Very
Than
Often
Worked
Teachers
Grasp
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
Alex Kapranos
Music
Time
Promoter
Generate
Put
Most
Also
Principle
Dole
Being
Which
Grasp
Income
Basic
So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.
Alton Brown
Job
Thought
Finally
Restaurant
Had
New
Institute
Until
Industry
New England
Culinary
Years
Quit
After
Worked
Full
England
Grasp
Two
Needed
You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.
Andy Partridge
Buy
Time
Myself
You
Beatles
Hate
Joy
Frustration
Cause
First
Big
Invariably
Absolute
New
Know
First Time
Heard
Mixture
Done
Fan
Grasp
Album
Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.
Ann Nocenti
Character
You
Complicated
Simple
Will
Three
Before
Think
Say
Carrying
Weaponry
Archaic
About
More
Write
Take
He
Know
Because
Around
How
Issues
Arrow
Very
Green
Them
Really
Grasp
Now
Nuance
Four
Need
I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.
Anthony Hopkins
Time
About
Fact
Anything
Fascinated
Grasp
For people who grew up in the last four decades of the 20th century, it is hard to grasp the concept of negative interest rates. How is it even possible? If interest rates are the price of money, is the marketplace broadcasting that money is on sale? Are we just giving it away?
Anthony Scaramucci
People
Money
Negative
Giving
Broadcasting
Marketplace
Possible
Rates
Price
Concept
How
Sale
Up
Decades
Just
Grew
Interest
Interest Rates
Century
Hard
Who
Grasp
Even
Away
Four
Last
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.
Ben Nicholson
Me
You
Important
Saw
Able
Student
Journeys
Buildings
Were
Greece
Egypt
Where
Which
Mean
Really
Grasp
Things
Sicily
After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.'
Bill Dedman
Buy
Troublemakers
School
Down
Every
Kids
Out
Detector
Guns
Give
Throw
Install
Students
Massacre
Metal
Bulletproof
Soup
Fit
Quick
Train
Cures
Crack
American
Behind
After
Cans
Teachers
Who
Grasp
Profile
I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.
Bokeem Woodbine
Success
Disappointment
Will
Thought
Met
Cold
Projects
Stay
Only
Involved
How
Been
Lot
Get
Predicting
Gained
Really
Should
Notoriety
Grasp
Film
Away
Career
I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.
Bonnie Raitt
Love
Guitar
Three
Else
Took
Guitar Lessons
Kind
Folk
Bored
Something
Something Else
Tend
Piano
Never
Head
Over
Freer
Reach
Know
Always
How
Hear
Get
Same
Grasp
Lessons
Chords
Play
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
Carol Kane
Great
People
Feel
Along
Pass
Any
Should
Grasp
Technique
Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
Carter Burwell
Once
Tried
Able
More
Simply
Missing
Were
Lot
Off
Conducting
Conductors
Quickly
Subtle
Realized
Aspects
Grasp
Watching
Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.
Christoph Waltz
Today
You
Tomorrow
Something
Open
Make
Up
Very
Hold
Ordinary
Might
Sparkle
Special
Grasp
Keep
Elevate
Champagne
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
David Bohm
Logical
Language
Mind
Feelings
State
Intuitively
Proper
Only
Poetic
Generally
Overall
Terms
Also
Known
Operation
Mathematical
Order
Formal
Etc
Usage
Requires
Grasp
Each
Images
Suggestion
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
David Guterson
Time
People
Some People
Melancholy
Brooding
Some
Feel
Required
Grasp
Serenity
Interpret
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