"I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that."

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Source : "'Mysterious Benedict': Solve A Puzzle, Save The World". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. March 26, 2012.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.”
“Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life,”
“Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?”
“My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.”
“I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.”
“Simplicity is not the same as stupidity”
“All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.”

Source : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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