"Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Time Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening”
“I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.”
“My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.”
“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
“The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.164, Routledge
“The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But when I saw how easily the man flyers manipulated their machines I said I could fly.”
“Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.”

Source : FaceBook post by Irena Chalmers from Mar 28, 2013

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