"It is impossible not to notice Ruby on Rails. It has had a huge effect both in and outside the Ruby community... Rails has become a standard to which even well-established tools are comparing themselves to."

-- Martin Fowler

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“Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.”
“Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.”

Source : "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.
“Sometimes it's smart to be scared.”
“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.”
“I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new script I start picking through the pieces. Suddenly you get five pieces together and think: this is almost the first Act of a movie, if I flesh it out a bit.”
“I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we did live forever, then we would live forever, which is why I would not live forever.”
“I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.”

Source : Comment on the Profumo affair, July 1963, in Anthony Sampson 'Macmillan' (1967) p. 243
“My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left ***** red, and I write.”

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