Computer language Quote by William James Download Open image “In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer language Computer programming Education Forget Important Intellect Intelligence Learning Memory Practicals Programming Programming languages Remember Teacher Use
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately. — Gordon Bell Copy Share Image
“Remembering and Forgetting You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Forgetting is a way for your mind to clear space for all the new memories that awaits you. It's not a weakness, it's a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten. — Martha Albrand Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou Copy Share Image
First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded. — Darwin D. Martin Copy Share Image
Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance. — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper… — Cay S. Horstmann Copy Share Image
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous,… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ...… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image