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“How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!”
From dissertation Life and Poems of Thomas Gray
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Scottish writer 1813–1878Related quotes
“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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“How much does the fame of human actions depend upon the station of those who perform them!”
Quam multum interest quid a quoque fiat!
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Letter 24, 1.
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“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
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(1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
“The Pornographic Imagination,” p. 45
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“How does a project get to be a year late? … One day at a time.”
Fred Brooks
(1931) American computer scientist
Page 153 (italics and ellipsis in source).
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)
Marvin Minsky
(1927–2016) American cognitive scientist
Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)
Context: Of what use is musical knowledge? Here is one idea. Each child spends endless days in curious ways; we call this play. A child stacks and packs all kinds of blocks and boxes, lines them up, and knocks them down. … Clearly, the child is learning about space!... how on earth does one learn about time? Can one time fit inside another? Can two of them go side by side? In music, we find out!
“Those in love do not know how to say good-bye: they are with one another all the time.”
Josemaría Escrivá
(1902–1975) Spanish theologian
The Furrow (1986)
