Dokes Propane Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems. — Edsger Dijkstra

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level. — Vicente Fox

We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do. — Ricky Skaggs

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance. — Socrates

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually. — Mark Messier

Since the NBA purchased the New Orleans Hornets, final responsibility for significant management decisions lies with the Commissioner's Office in consultation with team chairman Jac Sperling. All decisions are made on the basis of what is in the best interests of the Hornets. In the case of the trade proposal that was made to the Hornets for Chris Paul, we decided, free from the influence of other NBA owners, that the team was better served with Chris in a Hornets uniform than by the outcome of the terms of that trade. — David Stern

North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist? — Barbara Demick

We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture. — Chris Milk

Champagne ... the wine of kings, the king of wines — Guy De Maupassant