"I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative."

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Source : Vikram Chandra (2013). “Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software”, p.22, Faber & Faber

Vikram Chandra

#Writing Quotes #Relief Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.”
“Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.”
“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.”
“Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.”
“Here's the thing: if I want to do something, I just have to do it - for real! I'm not gonna pussy out in the moment. I don't want no holding back!”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com
“Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists have opened the black boxes and seen what is inside, they know the Darwinian theory is just a story, not a scientific explanation.”

Source : Phillip E. Johnson (1997). “Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds”, p.77, InterVarsity Press
“I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.”

Source : "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.
“We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.”

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