"Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know"

-- John Gardner

#Writing Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.”

Source : "Assigning Meanings to Programs" by Robert W. Floyd, published in "Proceedings of Symposium on Applied Mathematics", Volume 19 (pp. 19-20), 1967.
“Iranâ€™s President openly talks about wiping Israel off the map. The Iranian nuclear program is a threat, not just to my country, but to the entire region. And itâ€™s incumbent upon us all to do what needs to be done to keep from proliferating.”
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
“I like to do a face steam, so, heat up a flannel, press it onto your face and then press a cold one on afterwards to close the pores. It's inexpensive!”
“Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.”
“I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.”
“The future is as bright as the promise of God.”
“We have found ways . . . to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell . . . in the multinational food industry, . . . and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.”

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