"Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick"

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Source : Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.517, Microsoft Press

Charles Petzold

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“Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.”
“You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom". www.cnn.com. March 19, 2013.
“I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.”
“The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.”

Source : "Sarah Manguso: 'My diary-keeping is a vice'" by Michelle Dean, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2015.
“The idea is that Jodie Foster is with her child and she's going back to New York from Germany with her husband's body. She loses her child on a plane, and you think, 'How can that happen?' There's no record of her having brought a child onto the plane, and the captain is left wondering about whether she's telling the truth. You never really know if she's telling the truth or not.”
“There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.”
“One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails....”
“I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.”

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