“You need to study other people's work. Their approaches to problem solving and the tools they use give you a fresh way to look at your own work.”
Programmers at Work (1986)
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Nathan Seiberg (1956) American physicist
as quoted by Sandhya Ramesh in: [Interview: 'There's No Conflict Between Lack of Evidence of String Theory and Work Being Done on It', The Wire, Bengaluru, 7 January 2018, https://thewire.in/science/theres-no-conflict-lack-evidence-string-theory-work-done]
“People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.”
Ivan Illich book Tools for Conviviality
Tools for Conviviality (1973), p. 10
“Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.”
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) American author
Introduction to The Golden Man (1980)
Queen Mathilde of Belgium (1973) Belgian royal
unicef.org http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/reallives_4443.html
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Je ne sais point de plus grande finesse pour parvenir à aimer que d'aimer, comme on apprend à étudier en étudiant, à parler en parlant, à travailler en travaillant.
Francis de Sales, quoted in Vie de saint François de Sales, évèque et prince de Genève by André Jean Marie Hamon (Librairie Victor Lecoffre, Paris, 1896), Vol. II, Book VII, Ch. V: Son amour pour Dieu
Variant of sourced quotation: Comme on apprend à étudier en étudiant, à jouer du luth en jouant, à nager en nageant; aussi apprend-on à aimer Dieu et le prochain en l'aimant. — Francis de Sales, quoted in Jean-Pierre Camus, "L'esprit du bienheureux saint François de Sales" (1641), Part I, Section 31; published in Oeuvres complètes de saint François de Sales, ed. Jean-Irénée Depéry (Berche et Tralin, Paris, 1875), Vol. I
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Chris Cornell (1964–2017) American singer-songwriter, musician
NYROCK: Interview with Chris Cornell, October 1, 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/20030919022841/http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/1999/cornell_int.asp, <br class="br">On depression and suicide
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (8 June 1987) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106647 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: I believe passionately that people have a right, by their own efforts, to benefit their own families, so we have taken down taxation. It doesn't matter to me who you are or what your background is. If you want to use your own efforts to work harder—yes, I am with you all the way, whether it is unskilled effort or whether it is skilled, we have taken the income tax down.