"C programmers never die. They are just cast into void."

-- Alan Perlis

#Void Quotes #Casts Quotes

“Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give them a definite shape. Its mental expression is dead dogma; its physical manifestation of life, brute force. This lack of intelligence in its endeavours leaves its imprint likewise on the persons of its representatives, gradually making them mentally inferior and brutal, even though they were originally excellently endowed. Nothing dulls the mind and soul of man as does the eternal monotony of routine, and power is essentially routine.”
“Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.”

Source : David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.”
“The biggest weapon of mass destruction in history is the AK-47, not Iranian nuclear weapons.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“As people do a task, they improve at it.”
“Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.”
“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”
“Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.”

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