Brian H. Hook quotes

Brian H. Hook quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_”
-- Brian H. Hook

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“Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.”
“One man's constant is another man's variable.”

Source : Alan J. Perlis (1975). “Introduction to computer science”
“To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.”
“The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.”
“I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.”
“Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.89, Stanford University Press
“As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.”
“Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.”
“Economics and ethics have little in common.”
“Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.”

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