Thus they went on
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Values
Most DRM solutions diminish
Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer’s use or by creating uncertainty. Gabe Newell
Traditional credentialing really doesn’t
Traditional credentialing really doesn’t have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful. Gabe Newell
After a day’s walk
After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value. G. M. Trevelyan
Since history has no
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves. G. M. Trevelyan
Every ceremony or rite
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books. G. I. Gurdjieff
It is rather astonishing
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility. G. H. Hardy
A man who sets
A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be). G. H. Hardy
I have never done
I have never done anything ‘useful’. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world… Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have … Read more
A person’s first duty,
A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value. G. H. Hardy