#Thinking Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Moments Quotes
“We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
“We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.”
“Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.”
“When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?”
“For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.”
“To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples...”
“Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.”
“For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.”
