"By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality."

-- Donald Knuth

#Reality Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Machines Quotes

“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
“I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.”
“All a woman needs to be chic is a raincoat, two suits, a pair of trousers and a cashmere sweater”
“It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.”
“Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.”
“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.”
“The heaviest snowfall in over 60 years is being reported in Beijing, China. To give you an idea of how bad it is, the army is now using snowplows to run over dissidents.”
“I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.”

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