"The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large."

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Source : Interview with Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal, April 1996.

Donald Knuth

#Levels Quotes #Psychological Quotes #Lows Quotes

“The only time you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable.”
“I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.”
“I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.”
“I started a big part of my career in Vegas.”
“We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.”

Source : Carroll Eugene Simcox (1985). “Prayer: The Divine Dialog”, Intervarsity Pr
“I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.”
“Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.”
“As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.”

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