A Quote by Jaron Lanier

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

Jaron Lanier

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Before Breaks Demands Perfection Software Statistics Universe

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Jaron Lanier
American - Artist
Born: May 3, 1960

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

Henry A. Kissinger

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Gary Hamel

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Richard Whately

I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that software, officially recognizing me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognize software inventions, since the U.S. Supreme Court was not recognizing software patents.

Shiva Ayyadurai

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Charles Baudelaire

In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.

Martin Buber

I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic.

Brian Behlendorf

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

James Russell Lowell

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

Confucius

By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.