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“ comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility

— Martin Fowler

“ We(software engineers) don’t have the luxury of working within a known universe. God didn’t invent x86.

— Jeff Atwood

“ Gabriel’s enthusiasm for the notion of programming as creative writing is not purely abstract; in the 1990s, he took three years off from his career to get an MFA in creative writing and to write a poem a day. He discovered that we ask more work of students who want to become writers and poets than those who aim to become software developers: They must study with mentors, they must present their work for regular criticism by peers in workshops, and they’re expected to labor over multiple revisions of the same work. “i think we need to be ashamed of this,” Gabriel says. “What we put forward as computer education is a farce

— Dreaming in Code

“ I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your life thinking about them.

— the curious incident of the dog in the night-time

“ Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.

— Judith Viorst

“ The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.

— Winston Churchill

“ An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present or paint a future so vivid that it can entice… or terrify, all dependening upon how we conduct ourselves today.

— http://www.garfield.com/comics/comics_archives_strip.html?1989-ga891028

“ Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.

— Catcher in the Rye

“ The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they’ll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don’t like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they’ll say he’s conceited. Even smart girls do it.

— Catcher in the Rye

“ Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right — I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game. (Holden’s thought on Life is a game)

— Catcher in the Rye