"Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love."

-- A. C. Benson

#Life Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.”
“[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.”
“I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would...”
“In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.”
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
“The trouble was, my feelings for Patch weren't harmless.”
“One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad but hilarious.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1995). “Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems”, Wiley
“What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.”

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