Quotes about Discovery

Once we were safely ashore, we learned that the island was called Malta.

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

Indeed, when he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently until he found me.

You can go anywhere in books

If you understand McCarthy's eval, you understand more than just a stage in the history of languages. These ideas are still the semantic core of Lisp today. So studying McCarthy's original paper shows us, in a sense, what Lisp really is. It's not something that McCarthy designed so much as something he discovered. It's not intrinsically a language for AI or for rapid prototyping, or any other task at that level. It's what you get (or one thing you get) when you try to axiomatize computation.

Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable.

I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and if we occasionally stumble, the Divine comes to our aid, preventing us from making mistakes.

Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel...

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits