Quotes About Exploration

Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?

There is so much for you to do," she said. "So many places." "How do you know?" I said. "I can feel it," she said.

scenario creation is a function of good imagination.

Sources of Surprise: Make the time to read outside your immediate specialty—if necessary, taking time from more "active" tasks. Stick bookmarks in promising places, then graze the marked passages later. Allow yourself to become enthralled once in a while.

On the fourth hand, one reason I don't like IDEs quite so much is that they can make it hard to know when you've actually seen everything. Walking around in a graph, it's hard to know you've touched all the parts. Whereas if you've got some linear order, it's guaranteed to take you through everything.

I can't say beginner programmers should open up all these abstractions. But what I am saying is you should certainly consider the possibility of opening them. Not completely reject the idea. It's worthwhile seeing if the direct route is quicker than the packaged route.

Creativity becomes a way of life. This then is the opportunity and invitation: little bets provide a powerful vehicle to approach life and work in a new way.

Not only can we not teach doctrinally approved solutions any more [which take roughly two years to be approved], the truth is, we don't even know all the problems!

Accepting every offer by using "yes … and" language, a cornerstone of improvisation, facilitates building up ideas.

Practicing little bets frees us from the expectation that we should know everything we need to know before we begin.

Wenn er nämlich wahrhaft gelebt hat, kann das nur in fernen Landen gewesen sein.

The face was no longer bone, but animal - the face of a white wolf. "I forbid you nothing. Nothing, " uttered the awful face. "You may go anywhere - you may open any door. But, little bird, remember that you must be prepared to accept whatever you find." The long jaws spread in a smile filled with teeth.

One makes advances. You do! You come to see what your story is like. That's part of the fun: to see how you can get the other elements that are not your natural interests or concerns primarily.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

Ein Philosoph ist ein Mann, der in Ermangelung einer Frau die ganze Welt umarmt.

The past is no Roman road, but more often a maze...

But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars.

But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.

You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

NOT UNTIL WE ARE LOST DO WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND OURSELVES. —Henry David Thoreau

It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.

TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE. —ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

I wanna know, can you show me I wanna know 'bout these Strangers Like Me Tell me more, please show me Something's familiar 'bout these Strangers Like Me

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