“The Principle of Least Surprise" describes a general approach to software that celebrates sanity over cleverness: clear intent, reasonable defaults, and providing… — Mattt Thompson Copy Share Image
Let's pretend looks didn't really matter in a relationship and that everyone is really in a relationship solely because their partner is… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices… — Constance Wu Copy Share Image
It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I always thought there was some cleverness to the joke diet in which you could eat as much as you want and… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“I miss you, sister," he say. "I miss me too," she say. Always too clever but not clever enough to know when… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“Half smiling, with imperturbable brightness and friendliness, the Buddha looked steadily at the stranger and dismissed him with a hardly visible gesture.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I was electrified by this theory, I could feel my footsteps dancing and I begin to laugh. I was perfectly aware that… — Jacqueline Harpman Copy Share Image
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Cleverness builds ever more elaborate structures of self-justification… But in the end you know what is and what is not right. All… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The key is not money; organization, cleverness, or education. Are you and I seeing the results Peter saw? Are we bringing thousands… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I try to think as little as possible, at least while working. I look at some of my early stories and can… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. — Euripides Copy Share Image
That's one of the things about comedy - I think it works best when it's contextualized, as opposed to kind of an… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. A stupid person makes it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aw look at you, you've uploaded the same picture of yourself in 9 different effects. Arent you clever? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But honestly, what’s the point of cleverness if it keeps you stuck in one place? At least I’m daring enough to dream… — Nicole Tsopo Copy Share Image
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“But now, when things had happened which were too appalling to think about, when his romantic love was a corpse and his… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
