“What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea
into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve certainly learned something about it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn’t that true?”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve certainly learned something about it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn’t that true?”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“In some matters," he said, "it is better to be intellectually uncertain rather than superficially sure. This will still leave us with a great deal to be certain about, while maintaining a humility to learn.”
― Who Shall Be Able to Stand?: Finding Personal Meaning in the Book of Revelation
― Who Shall Be Able to Stand?: Finding Personal Meaning in the Book of Revelation
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