Knowledge Quotes

From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.

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"Every protocol is really a conversation between machines about how to understand each other."
Bob Kahn
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"Good protocol design requires humility about what we don't know."
Bob Kahn
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"Every programmer should understand how browsers work at a fundamental level."
Brendan Eich
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"Debugging is where you truly learn how something works."
Brendan Eich
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"Programming requires both technical skill and human understanding."
Brendan Eich
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"Programming teaches you that small details matter enormously."
Brendan Eich
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"Building systems is about understanding trade-offs, not finding perfect solutions."
Ryan Dahl
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"Callbacks were never meant to be nested fifty levels deep."
Ryan Dahl
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"The programming language is just a tool; the problem-solving is what matters."
Ryan Dahl
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"Code is read far more often than it is written."
Ryan Dahl
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"Real understanding comes from building, not just theorizing."
Ryan Dahl
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"One of the most important skills in machine learning is knowing when you have enough data."
Andrew Ng
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"Understanding your data is more important than understanding your algorithm."
Andrew Ng
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"The best predictions come from understanding the underlying patterns in human behavior."
Andrew Ng
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"Knowledge should flow freely across networks, unrestricted by artificial barriers."
Vint Cerf
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"The Internet teaches that knowledge is most powerful when it is widely shared."
Vint Cerf
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"The Web is an abstract space of all possible hyperlinked documents, not associated with any individual computer."
Tim Berners-Lee
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"The Web is a tool for humans to learn, create, and understand each other."
Tim Berners-Lee
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"Data is the gold of the 21st century. And we must manage it responsibly."
Tim Berners-Lee
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"The Web is a living document of human knowledge and experience."
Tim Berners-Lee
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"Gold and silver are commodities whose value is determined by the same principles as other commodities, by the difficulty of their production."
David Ricardo
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"If a commodity could be made by labor alone, and with the aid of perfectly durable machines, its price would be wholly regulated by the quantity of labor."
David Ricardo
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"The true theory of rent is one of the most important and most difficult points in political economy."
David Ricardo
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"The rate of profit depends not on the absolute quantity of labor saved, but on the proportion of the capital saved."
David Ricardo
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"The prices of raw produce tend constantly to rise relative to the prices of manufactured goods."
David Ricardo
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"The rate of wages is regulated by the proportion between the population and the capital employed in its support."
David Ricardo
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"The value of paper money is derived from the value of the metal for which it is exchanged."
David Ricardo
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"The real price of a commodity is measured by the quantity of other commodities for which it exchanges."
David Ricardo
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"The wages of labor depend upon the abundance or scarcity of capital relative to the population."
David Ricardo
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"The principles which govern the distribution of national income are the foundation of all political economy."
David Ricardo