“And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.”
Source: The Great War for Civilization (2005), Chapter 11: 'Fifty Thousand Miles From Palestine' (page 464)
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“It is never presence that gives us the feedback we need, but distance.”
Original: Non è mai la presenza a darci il riscontro di cui abbiamo bisogno, ma la distanza.
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“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”
Dijkstra (1970) " Notes On Structured Programming http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD249.PDF" (EWD249), Section 3 ("On The Reliability of Mechanisms"), corollary at the end.
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Variant: Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but it is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
“Never let us utter what we never can know,
And chiefly when it works another's woe.”
Book XXXII, line 753
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.”
Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) "Bette Davis smoking over `Stepmother' role", Houston Chronicle, p. 10.
Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book, 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 0156013118, p. 220
The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)
Context: Here, at the birth of modern science, is a fundamental insight. Our knowledge of nature Out There begins with knowledge of ourselves In Here. Until we have freed our minds and emotions of the hidden presuppositions that stand between us and the world, we can never be certain we are in touch with reality.
Afterword: The Idols of the Bedchamber
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 4