"It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design."

-- Bruce Tognazzini

#Book Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Design Quotes

“I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.”

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“To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.”
“Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.”
“I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.”
“You seeyou can beat a dog and it's going to do one of two things..it's gonna roll over and die or it's going to bite you and attack you. And I'm the kind of person..uh..whose the type of dog that will bite back..I wasn't going to roll over and die”
“My stand-up act is very clean.”
“I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.”
“I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another note, sometimes the personal is not so politically correct, and what we are turned on by can't be made to behave.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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