On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles BabbageStichwörter: programming ux expectations
After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.
Tom PerrottaStichwörter: expectations pretense
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander PopeStichwörter: hope disappointment expectations beatitudes
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Simone de BeauvoirStichwörter: perception ideals expectations daughters fathers conforming
I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. [...] Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them. Thus X will never compose the immortal music that would clash with the second-rate symphonies he has accustomed us to. Y will never commit murder. Under no circumstances can Z ever betray us. We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person, the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We could prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.
Vladimir NabokovStichwörter: friendship expectations
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: self-image expectations image
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
Sylvia PlathStichwörter: expectations
It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?
Douglas AdamsStichwörter: expectations
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]
Stichwörter: life strength carpe-diem spirit appreciation gratitude expectations misfortunes unbreakable-spirit
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.
Bill WattersonStichwörter: humor expectations
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