"The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures."

-- Fred Brooks

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“A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.”
“A little glitter can turn your whole day around.”

Source : Barbara Park (2003). “Junie B., first grader: shipwrecked”
“If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake it, and you can eat it an hour later. We don't promise you a pie in the sky by and by. It's charlatanry to promise people something that no one can be sure will ever be delivered. But it's even worse to offer people a reward, like children, for being good, and to threaten them with punishment if they're not.”
“Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do.”
“I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.”
“I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.”
“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.”
“I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.”

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