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“The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have, Charlie. Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth.
“I'm just in love with you, that's all. I've been in love with you for a while and I finally had to say it. It doesn't mean you have to do anything about it - or me either, for that matter."
I'm still... I don't know. I'm just... Jesus! But I'm happy to like you. I like you a lot. I'll be head over heels in like with you. Lin, if that's enough.”
― Shantaram
I'm still... I don't know. I'm just... Jesus! But I'm happy to like you. I like you a lot. I'll be head over heels in like with you. Lin, if that's enough.”
― Shantaram
“If anything they did the opposite by inhibiting the development of expertise needed to know when to confirm to prescriptive procedures and when to go beyond them. In this, procedural rules seek to transfer judgement by codifying it. This may work some of the time, but it cannot work all of the time because judgement is not procedural. There can be no substitute for judgement, and as well no escaping that the expert has it but the novice does not.”
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“Of course, there are no rules for specifying what looks good or even any way to define it. The intuitive nature of this task was illustrated by one engineer's remark: "When you ask me how I did this I will say 'I don't know.”
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“The days when engineers had exclusive authority over engineering decisions are long gone.”
― Degrees of Belief: Subjective Probability and Engineering Judgment
― Degrees of Belief: Subjective Probability and Engineering Judgment
“You know,' she said slowly, 'I like you, Lin.'
She stared that green fire into me. I felt myself reddening slightly, not from embarrassment, but from shame, that she'd said so easily the very words, I like you, that I wouldn't let myself say to her.
'You do?' I asked, trying to make the question sound more casual than it was. I watched her lips close in a thin smile.
'Yes. You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because it's so hard to resist. Being listened to - really listened to - is the second-best thing in the world.'
'What's the first best thing?'
'Everybody knows that. The best thing in the world is power.'
'Oh, is it?' I asked, laughing. 'What about sex?'
'No. Apart from biology, sex is all about power.”
― Shantaram
She stared that green fire into me. I felt myself reddening slightly, not from embarrassment, but from shame, that she'd said so easily the very words, I like you, that I wouldn't let myself say to her.
'You do?' I asked, trying to make the question sound more casual than it was. I watched her lips close in a thin smile.
'Yes. You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because it's so hard to resist. Being listened to - really listened to - is the second-best thing in the world.'
'What's the first best thing?'
'Everybody knows that. The best thing in the world is power.'
'Oh, is it?' I asked, laughing. 'What about sex?'
'No. Apart from biology, sex is all about power.”
― Shantaram
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