"I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality."

-- Gore Vidal

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Contemporary Quotes

“How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris”
“We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.”
“There is honor in being a dog.”
“I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.”
“If you want the most reward you have to take the most risk.”
“If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.”
“Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.”

Source : "The WyCash Portfolio Management System". OOPSLA conference, c2.com. March 26, 1992.
“We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.”

Source : "Culture and Society". Book by Raymond Williams, 1958.

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