"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

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“When I started making my own music, I was more about recreating what I was hearing. I noticed that I had some control over what I was saying, and the effects that it's going to have on people. I wanted to focus more on the positive side of things, which are more in tune with my morals and ethics.”
“An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.”
“There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering.”
“I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.”
“Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.”
“God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives.”
“The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.”
“Hollywood is a land of self-invention.”

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