"The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic."

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Source : Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.339, Pearson Education

Grady Booch

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“Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly”

Source : Joe Orton (2014). “Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...”, p.14, A&C Black
“I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.”
“To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.15, Penguin
“There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.”
“The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.37, Princeton University Press
“As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.”
“For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.”
“Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.”

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