"It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!"

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Source : Twitter post from Oct 11, 2010

John Carmack

#Cost Quotes #Benefits Quotes #Today Quotes

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
“There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from the plight of the people in Orchid. And you can't have the splendor of Rodeo Drive without the sweatshops of Indonesia; those two things go hand in hand.”
“To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.”
“It's easy to talk about our system not functioning. It's actually functioning exactly the way we've designed it to function by giving so much power to the political parties, which all of our, you know, leading founders - Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison - all said don't create political parties like the ones we have now. We did it, and we're paying a very high price for it.”

Source : "Former Republican Congressman: Dysfunction In Washington Is 'Systemic'". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, ijpr.org. October 18, 2013.
“Immortality is overrated, living for an eternity would get really old.”
“While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.”

Source : Harmelin v. Michigan 501 U.S. 957 at 1023, 1991.
“Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.”
“I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.”

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