"When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend."

-- Eric S. Raymond

#Sugar Quotes #Language Quotes #Programming Quotes

“The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.”
“I've tried to do everything possible to prepare myself and prepare our football team to be great.”
“Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.”
“My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.”
“Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.”

Source : Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 04, 2015.
“The question is, "Are you spiritual or are you not?" The truth is you are. The reality is you don't believe it”
“Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.”
“The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.”

Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824). “Posthumous Poems”, p.367

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