"In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages."

-- Alan Perlis

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“He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.”
“Anbody can make an easy deal, but only a true agent can sell a dog.”
“In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.”

Source : Stanley Kunitz, Kent P. Ljungquist (2013). “Conversations with Stanley Kunitz”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.”
“The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.”
“I dont consider the bloody ROI.”
“When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.'”
“It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.”

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