Pastoral Resources

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.