"I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it"

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Source : "Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006". June 2007.

Alexander Stepanov

#Believe Quotes #Ends Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you.”
“In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
“I've wanted to hit Jay Cutler so hard for so long that this move just makes sense.”
“Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.”

Source : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.25
“A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.”
“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”
“These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.”

Source : Archilochus, Sappho, Alcman, Guy Davenport (1980). “Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: three lyric poets of the late Greek Bronze Age”, Univ of California Pr
“The fact that a Jewish state needs to exist at all - and it does need to exist - is an indictment of all humanity, and especially the Catholic Church, whose centuries-long programme of aggressive Jew hatred has been ingrained right into the European psyche so that it takes almost nothing to bring it out.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Let's Blame The Jews", www.youtube.com. May 26, 2011.

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