"Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't."

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David Gelernter

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“You're only as good as your last record.”
“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”
“Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.”

Source : Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.171, OUP Oxford
“Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.”
“From a policymaker's point of view, [the back door] must look like a perfect solution. "We'll hold onto a separate copy of the keys, and we'll try to keep them really, really safe so that only in an emergency and if it's authorized by a court will we bring out those keys and use them." And, from a policy point of view, when you describe it that way, who could be against that?”
“Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?”

Source : Twitter post from May 6, 2012
“If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.”
“Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed in order to be happy, and you will be. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it.”

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