“How to make a list? Collecting the data, that's the easy bit. Sorting it into categories is slightly more difficult. Shortening the list is the most difficult part. That a really difficult problem.”
The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science
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British computer scientist 1950–2019Related quotes
“I’m told it’s very difficult to escape death once he adds your name to his list.”
Source: The Goblin Quest Series, Goblin War (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 301)
“This problem is the most difficult and the last to be solved by mankind.”
Sixth Thesis
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)
“And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.”
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Fragments
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 77; cited in John Gall (1978) Systemantics; how systems work... and especially how they fail
on Michael Jackson
2001 - 2010, Out to Lunch with Isa Genzken' (2009)
“It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy.”
Er ist eine Skala der Proportionen, die das Schlechte schwierig und das Gute leicht macht.
On the Modulor. Letter sent to Le Corbusier (1946); quoted in Modulor (1953)
1940s
Speech to the House of Commons (January 29, 1828).
“In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.”
Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 71 http://books.google.com/books?id=3gtoAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA71&dq=%22most+difficult+part+to+invent+is+the+end%22.
1850s and later
“The most difficult jobs look easy until you try to do them.”
Featherisms (2008)