Quotes About Dependencies

The dependencies of inner and outer Mongolia are the bulwarks of China. The desert of Gobi, stretching for ten thousand li, is a barrier set by Heaven to the Russians, and if they seek to invade our borders, they will find it everywhere along the Northern frontier difficult and troublesome.

This is a source of their strength and a potential weakness within the capitalist/imperialist system, since the peasants and workers of the dependencies are awakening to a realization that it is possible to cut the tentacles which imperialism has extended into their countries.

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

But that ignores the fact that tests are also a way of communicating with other developers, so I now do write tests on code shared with others or that relies on the peculiarities of external dependencies.

The Japanese have an expression for human relations that are sticky with the mutual obligations and dependencies of the collective life. They use the English word "wet." Traditional Japanese family relations are "wet." Yakuza gangs are "wet." Behavior that is more detached, more individualistic, often associated with a Western way of life, is "dry." Terayama Shuji was "dry." Kara was most definitely "wet.

The more attachments we accumulate, the more we need this inner cleansing. If we have mental baggage, we need to unlearn; if we have emotional dependencies, we need to let them go; if we have possessions that clutter up our lives, we need to give them away.