"Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it."

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Source : Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.1, Courier Corporation

Walter Pater

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“If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork you into adventure or, by the same token, may not.”
“Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.”
“Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.”
“You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?”
“But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.”
“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”

Source : "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". techland.time.com. April 02, 2013.
“I watch mostly independent films.”
“The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.”

Source : "Chat with Ryan Gordon". Chrono's Pad, February 11, 2001.

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