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Apr 10
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…we don’t have time to waste thinking about things we don’t have.. We can only look for the best ways to fight with the things we have. For our whole life!
— Hiruma(Eyeshield 21)
Oct 27
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
— Albert Camus
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal
— Albert Camus
Sep 07
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comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility
— Martin Fowler
Aug 29
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We(software engineers) don’t have the luxury of working within a known universe. God didn’t invent x86.
— Jeff Atwood
Jul 11
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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
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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
Jun 04
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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.
— Judith Viorst
May 04
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The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.
— Winston Churchill