"This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."

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Source : "The Unix Oral History Project". Interview with Michael S. Mahoney, www.princeton.edu.

Douglas McIlroy

#Philosophy Quotes #Writing Quotes #Working Together Quotes

“Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.”

Source : Carl Zimmer (2014). “Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“I think it's a dance that people want to see. It's a chemistry that people want to see. In the same way that people don't want to see a perfect hero with no flaws who can handle anything, people don't want to see a perfect relationship. There's nothing interesting about that. People want to see you fail.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.
“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”
“[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.”
“Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.”
“Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced meditators concentrating on emptiness can meditate on emptiness for a long time with little effort. Their minds soar through space-like emptiness, undistracted by any other phenomenon. When we meditate on emptiness we should try to emulate these meditators.”
“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”
“The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.”

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