"Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming."

-- Rob Pike

#Self Quotes #Data Quotes #Algorithms Quotes

“I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)
“When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.”
“I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.”
“Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.”

Source : Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”
“Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit oneâ€™s emotions.”
“When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.”
“What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly avail if all the meeting places belong to the government? In a society in which there is no more personal and economic freedom, even the freest form of the state cannot make political independence possible.”
“Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.”

Source : Kelly Link (2001). “Stranger Things Happen: Stories”, p.143, Small Beer Press

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