"I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain."

-- Erik Naggum

#Pain Quotes #Cat Quotes #Affection Quotes

“Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.”
“With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.”
“When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.”
“So every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this, we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.”
“Religions do not teach doubt.”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.322, Spectra
“The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters.”
“I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest number was number one. That was himself. That may sound like a little bit of selfishness, but if that is selfishness, at least it is a very intelligent selfishness. Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul.”
“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”

Source : "With Truth as Our Sword". Book by C. E. Sylvester, February 2005.

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