"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures."

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Source : "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

Fred Brooks

#Air Quotes #Media Quotes #Creating Quotes

“And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.”
“Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.”
“Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.”
“I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.”
“The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.”

Source : Mark Hertzberg, Frank Lloyd Wright (2004). “Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City”, p.11, Pomegranate
“Many European parties, including the conventional parties in France, no longer have the ability to keep people together. And in terms of the coalition government, I am convinced that Angela Merkel has the necessary will and ambition. I want to be very cautious with my statements about her coalition negotiations, but support for Europe is part of the DNA of both the Greens and the Free Democratic Party. I was very pleased that the heads of both parties spoke out positively about the European project.”
“The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.”
“Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.”

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