"Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time."

-- Vita Sackville-West

#Poor Quotes #Prose Quotes #Inadequate Quotes

“Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 13, 2015
“Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will be able to ensure that no group of ideologues and no private sector institution can coopt our rights, take us into senseless wars and steal the nation from its people.”
“No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.”
“A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.”
“There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It's harder to read code than to write it.”

Source : Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.184, Apress
“He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.”

Source : Spalding Gray (1992). “Monster in a Box”, Vintage
“He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.”
“I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.”

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