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“Бровь, нависающая над глазом, представляет собой своеобразное возвышение для направления взгляда по прямой линии.
Каково доказательство этого? Когда ты хочешь посмотреть вдаль и, согнув руку, приставляешь ее к бровям, ради чего ты так делаешь? Ради того, чтобы направленный ввысь взгляд случайно не рассеивался, но при помощи приложенной руки получал нужное направление и устремлялся вперед и, чтобы скорректированное таким образом зрение было более точным и острым. Благодаря прикладыванию руки взгляд направляется по нужному пути. Брови же одновременно и направляют взгляд, и не позволяют выступившему при тяжелой работе поту капать (на глаза) и мешать зрению. Вот почему брови служат своего рода защитной стеной.”
Василий Великий, Hexaemeron

Thomas Paine
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
Thomas Paine

Robert C. Martin
“The tests fit the production code like an antibody fits an antigen.”
Robert C. Martin, The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
Charles Babbage

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