"Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make."

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Source : Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.94, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Douglas Crockford

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“One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.”
“Everything makes me vulnerable, you just have to use it as an actor. It's a constant balance.”
“I love playing odd roles.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.”
“Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.”
“Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very end of this volume, in conjunction with her finding and marrying her husband of 30 years, Ron Weldon. In this sense, it is half a memoir, the private background story to the public future. (...) The reader is forced to re-evaluate the spectacular weirdness of Weldon's fiction: having lived such a life any other kind would seem insipid.”
“Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.”
“I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.”

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