"The best practice is inspired by theory."

-- Donald Knuth

#Practice Quotes #Inspired Quotes #Theory Quotes

“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”
“Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.”
“The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
“The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its very beginning as few, if any, other products do. Textiles, pottery, bread ... there are other objects of daily use that we can also trace back to the Stone Age. Yet wine alone is charged with sacramental meaning, with healing powers; indeed with a life of its own.”
“While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.”
“I guess I must just be obsessed with death. Apparently you think about it a lot more as you get older. Maybe you could chart how when I was in my 20s I talked about sex all the time, and in my 40s it's just death.”

Source : "What the Hell Is David Shrigley Doing?". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. October 22, 2011.
“Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.”
“When done well, software is invisible.”

Source : "Inventor of C++ reflects on 25 years of the programming language". Interview with Micahel Calore, www.wired.co.uk. October 15, 2010.

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