"The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent."

-- Donald Knuth

#Example Quotes #Might Quotes #Talent Quotes

“History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.147, Random House
“Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.”
“I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.”
“I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.”

Source : Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.
“In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2954, Delphi Classics
“I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around.”
“I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.”

Source : "Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics". Book by Clifford Ross, 1990.

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