Douglas T. Ross (1929–2007) American computer scientist
Source: Structured analysis (SA): A language for communicating ideas (1977), p. 19.
“Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.”
Source: Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology, 1885, p. 91
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perhaps a passive magnetism as well, but at least an active is there
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Source: Rite of Passage (1968), Chapter 11 (p. 153).
“Unexpected events happen… always.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Gli eventi inaspettati accadono... sempre. <br class="br">Source: From the radio show Memories http://www.m2o.it/special/memories-reloaded/ conducted by Prevale
Francis Bacon book The Advancement of Learning
Book II, iv, 2
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Context: The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical: because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence: because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged, therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations: so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind into the nature of things.