"The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Simplicity Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.”

Source : Transcript for Tim Pawlenty on Obama: Many 'Have Failed at Their First Job', abcnews.go.com.
“It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.”

Source : Source: lbc.typepad.com
“But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.”
“I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.”
“I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.”
“There were a lot of lessons of production to be learned. On the page, the biggest thing you learn on any TV show is how to write to your cast. You write the show at the beginning with certain voices in your head and you have a way that you think the characters will be, and then you have an actor go out there, and you start watching dailies and episodes. Then, you start realizing what they can do and what they can't do, what they're good at and what they're not so good at, how they say things and what fits in their mouth, and you start tailoring the voice of the show to your cast.”
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”
“If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.”

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