Quotes About Assumption

She had spent an hour confronting whatever form the devil had chosen to assume overnight, pleasantly smiling maybe, or waving his arms and screaming, or just dangling apparently pointlessly like a stuffed effigy of a living being in the sun.

You'll regret crossing me!' 'Richard, I regret meeting you. I think you can safely assume that I also regret everything after that as well." (Smith 252)

Of course, you won't confirm or deny it, which means I'm probably right, since if I was wrong, you'd be gloating about it.

If you're happy slamming some code together that more or less works and you're happy never looking at the result again, TDD is not for you. TDD rests on a charmingly naïve geekoid assumption that if you write better code, you'll be more successful. TDD helps you to pay attention to the right issues at the right time so you can make your designs cleaner, you can refine your designs as you learn.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

Writing in the early 1990s, as the personal computer revolution first accelerated, Postman argued that our society was sliding into a troubling relationship with technology. We were, he noted, no longer discussing the trade-offs surrounding new technologies, balancing the new efficiencies against the new problems introduced. If it's high-tech, we began to instead assume, then it's good. Case closed.

Postman argued that our society was sliding into a troubling relationship with technology. We were, he noted, no longer discussing the trade-offs surrounding new technologies, balancing the new efficiencies against the new problems introduced. If it's high-tech, we began to instead assume, then it's good. Case closed.

De todas las cosas conocemos la versión que nos han hecho creer. Presuponemos que nuestros padres dicen la verdad, y en realidad no tenemos motivos para pensar de otro modo. Sólo quien va un poco más allá de lo obvio se da cuenta de que no tiene por qué ser así en todos los casos. Siempre hay excepciones que confirman la regla.

Believing that others will react as we would is the single most dangerous myth of intervention.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed

Many attenders, lacking any understanding about the content or purposes of worship, assume that the routines and rituals that occur in worship services constitute the substance of worship. Consequently

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

he had another think coming.

I've also been responsible for investigating plenty of strange stories. I intend to approach yours the same way I approached those — with an assumption that it represents reality until proven otherwise

I must have been assuming that without me there it would be all cobwebs and desolation.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Let us assume you've made your point.

Well, sir to say that when the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth, is to make the assumption, usually justified, that everything that is to be considered has indeed been considered. Let us suppose we have considered ten factors. Nine are clearly impossible. Is the tenth, however improbable, therefore true? What if there were an eleventh factor, and a twelfth, & a thirteenth...

Modern theoretical mathematicians frown at this and make haughty remarks such as But you are making the unwarranted assumption that the line is the same length when it is straight as when it was curved. I imagine the honest workman organizing the construction of the local temple, face with such an objection, would have solved matters by throwing the objector into the River Nile.

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The CIA orchestrated a plan to prevent Allende from assuming the presidency. First it tried to bribe members of Congress not to designate Allende and to call for a second vote

If someone sees me with what looks like a beer, it's always zero per cent.