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-- Niklaus Wirth

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“And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.”
“We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.”

Source : Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)
“I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.”

Source : Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.
“Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.”
“Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.”
“Thereâ€™s danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we canâ€™t find joy where we are, we probably wonâ€™t find it anywhere.”
“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”
“Interesting little game we play with each other.”

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