"Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming."

-- Yukihiro Matsumoto

#Two Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Design Quotes

“Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”
“The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.”
“This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.”
“Donâ€™t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writingâ€”and then putting your words away for weeks or monthsâ€“and then returning to your work to polish it some more.”
“Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.”
“I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.”
“I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.”
“Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.”

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