"Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings."

-- Niklaus Wirth

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“But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.”
“I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do that.”
“No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.”
“The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.”
“The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.”
“I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.”
“The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.”

Source : "The human race is insane" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2008.
“Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.”

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