"Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule."

-- Damian Conway

#Art Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Dark Quotes

“As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.”
“Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these huge viruses that have wiped out huge populations. So, we're dealing with something that the CDC hasn't seen before, but it comes from a virus. That's something that's based in reality, and then you put the science fiction on that and it's a really interesting combination.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.”

Source : Source: medium.com
“Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.”
“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”

Source : "Appreciations With An Essay On Style". Book by Walter Pater, 1889.
“We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.”

Source : "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.
“A book should be luminous not voluminous.”
“If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?”

Source : Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, Grove Press

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