"When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to read. Don't think of it primarily as something a computer is going to follow. The more effective you are at making your program readable, the more effective it's going to be: You'll understand it today, you'll understand it next week, and your successors who are going to maintain and modify it will understand it."

-- Donald Knuth

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“There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.”
“The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.”
“The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.”

Source : "X Factor finals 2011: Simon Cowell warns judges they face axe over plummeting viewing figures". www.mirror.co.uk. October 22, 2011.
“I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
“I'm not there to be the token sexy girl. Â I don't know that I would ever be able to pull that off. Â It's nice that those characters I've played feel uncomfortable as well because it's so much more realistic.”
“I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.”

Source : "Exclusive: I'm A Cyborg Q&A". Interview With Leigh Singer, www.ign.com. April 4, 2008.
“Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.”

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