"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."

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Source : Boris Beizer (1995). “Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems”, Wiley

Boris Beizer

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“Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.164
“'Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father, and to My God, and your God' (Jn. 20:!7). He is our Father by grace through the Spirit of adoption (Rom. 8:15), but His Father by nature on account of His divinity. Similarly, He is our God as the creator of our human nature, but His God by reason of the dispensation whereby He became man. He made these distinctions so that we might understand the difference.”
“I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.”
“And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.
“The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
“To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.”

Source : "The Father of Quantum Computing". Interview with Quinn Norton, www.wired.com. February 15, 2007.
“From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.”
“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”

Source : George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.55, A&C Black

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