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Vinculums of the Nexus

• In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.
  ~Dallin H. Oaks
  from LDS Speaker's Sourcebook, page 230
• No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of earth to the things of heaven.
  ~Hugh Nibley
  from Of All Things, page 219
• Sometimes when I'm faced with an unbeliever, an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.
  ~Ronald Reagan
• True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.
  ~Hugh Nibley
  from Of All Things, p 218
• Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof until all of the events transpire.
  ~Joseph Smith
  from History of the Church, 5:135
• Example isn't another way to teach. It is the only way to teach.
  ~Albert Einstein
• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
  ~Albert Einstein
• Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
  ~Albert Einstein
• It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. The never-satisfied man is so strange; if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.
  ~Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
  ~Brian W. Kernighan
• Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words in perfect syntax. There is no place for verbosity or carelessness. To become fluent in a computer lnaguage demands almost the antithesis of modern loose thinking. It requires many interactive sessions, the hands-on use of the device. You do not learn a foreign language from a book, rather you have to live in the country for year to let the langauge become an automatic part of you, and the same is true for computer languages.
  ~James Lovelock
• Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.
  ~Steven C. McConnell
• I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
  ~Pablo Picasso
• The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
  ~Tony Robbins
• The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
  ~Walt Whitman
• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
  ~Sir Francis Bacon
• Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
  ~Karl Menninger
• Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
  ~Robert Anthony
• For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
  ~Dag Hammarskjold
• In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
  ~Robert Heinlein
• The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
  ~Paul Johnson
• I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
  ~Orson Welles
• The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  from Journals, 1839
• It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
  ~Katharine Butler Hathaway
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
  ~Mark Twain

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