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Letter "M" » mediocre
«No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.»
Author: Alan Turing
(Logician, Mathematician)
| Keywords:
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«Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.»
«Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services»
Author: Mark Harris
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Computers
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«Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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«I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.»
«Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people»
«Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.»
«If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
at full speed, fall behind, hiring, mediocre, pushing
«Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«In large states, public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
cooking, mediocre, public education
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