"At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler"

-- Dennis Ritchie

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Design Quotes

“My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.”
“Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.”
“You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.”
“Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.”
“You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.”

Source : Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.197, Penguin
“The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.”
“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.”
“I want to be real. I don't want to pose as anything. I don't want to pose as a tough guy. I don't want to pose as a nice guy.”

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