Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
When we have no goal, or when our vision of the goal is obscured, we may lose our sense of purpose. Even when we've prepared ourselves well and have an aptitude for a given activity, poorly directed efforts can rob us of vital energy. We can spend a great deal of our time, money, and other resources running around in circles. Unless we create specific goals that match our purpose in life and unless we keep a clear vision of these goals, we may eventually falter and fail.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
It is just as painful to me when I do poorly. If the fault is all mine, that's what's painful. If it's a situation where no one could have succeeded, I don't feel as bad.
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled.
When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself.
The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.
If we speak poorly about that which we do well. . . people will assume we perform poorly!
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
No work is "most important. " Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.
The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of your body is like trying to keep the wind out of the trees.
IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.
There's nothing worse than a poorly staged house.
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.