Quotes About Diversity

On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.

David Hilbert, the towering mathematical intellect of the previous thirty years, had put it thus:9 'Mathematics knows no races … for mathematics, the whole cultural world is a single country'

Rather than construction, software is more like gardening—it is more organic than concrete. You plant many things in a garden according to an initial plan and conditions. Some thrive, others are destined to end up as compost.

Don't be a slave to any notation;

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938 Engineers

There are no easy answers. There is no such thing as a best solution, be it a tool, a language, or an operating system. There can only be systems that are more appropriate in a particular set of circumstances.

The cross-pollination of ideas is important; try to apply the lessons you've learned to your current project.

There is no such thing as a best solution, be it a tool, a language, or an operating system.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938

As for diversity within the military itself, highly publicized instances of tokenism—female officers becoming fighter pilots or graduating from the army's Ranger School—divert attention from gaping inequities related to class.

Everyone, I guess, sees their position as the neutral one and everyone else's position as biassed. I wonder why 177 minutes of the Today programme is completely secular; you feel horribly excluded by 3 minutes of Thought for Today. I see a sinister anti-religious bias when David Attenborough goes through a whole series without ever once aying On the other hand maybe God made it all; you feel that 30 minutes of hymn singing on Sunday evening amounts to theocratic oppression.)

The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

What could be more normal than to be out of place everywhere you go? What could be more American?

That in real life, there are no protagonists. Or, rather, the reverse: It's nothing but protagonists. It's protagonists all the way down.

Why is it so impossible to believe: that we are as many headed as monsters, as many armed as gods, as many hearted as angels?

Nothing happened to me. I'm just a homosexual at a Broadway show.

Just as a gay couple cannot walk hand in hand down the streets of Marrakech, he thinks, two men, best friends, cannot walk hand in hand down the streets of Chicago.

Nothing happened to me, he wants to say to her. Nothing happened to me. I'm just a homosexual at a Broadway show.

His first response to Peter was to ask: "How did they even know I was gay?" He asked this from his front porch, wearing a kimono

We are all having different experiences.

Honey, I don't know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry," and gives him a lilac-scented embrace. Nothing happened to me, he wants to say to her. Nothing happened to me. I'm just a homosexual at a Broadway show.

It was nothing like the rest of the city, no hills or views or bohemians, nothing Italian or Victorian to make you take a photograph.

What could be more normal than to be out of place everywhere you go?

real life, there are no protagonists. Or, rather, the reverse: It's nothing but protagonists. It's protagonists all the way down.