"Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers……" — Robert Burchfield
"Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error."
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10 Quotes by Robert Burchfield
Robert Burchfield has 10 quotes on this site.
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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
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Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.
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I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our…
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I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning…
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In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English…
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The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language…
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At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and…
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Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are…
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To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
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More Avoidance Quotes
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one of 99 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting…
— Leslie Groves
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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a…
— Louis C. K.
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Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
— Dan Greenburg
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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors…
— Ihab Hassan
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In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method…
— Edward Condon
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Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
— Umar
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...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not…
— Andrew Revkin
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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not…
— Robert Staughton Lynd
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My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice…
— William Zinsser
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The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of…
— Unknown Author
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We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
— Marilyn Ferguson
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