"The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle."

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Joe Armstrong

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“Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin' in and I'm Tired of this town again”
“The moment of grace comes to us in the dynamics of any situation we walk into. It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine situation. It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful, something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world better off for our having been there. We catch it if we are people of discernment.”
“People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.”
“Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.”
“The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension - we're not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man's inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone.”
“You have to learn things in every game because you are not going to be able to practice two-and-a-half to three hours (during the season), so the games have to be the ultimate learning experience.”
“We put forth a very strong number. It's always hard to know, it's impossible to know what numbers are out there.”
“The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.”

Source : Charles Rosen (2001). “Critical Entertainments”, p.295, Harvard University Press

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