"I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

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“As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?”
“I love life. There's always something to overcome, new people to meet... You've just got to find your bliss and go after it. That's where the drive is, that's how you find your special place.”
“I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.”
“The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.”
“I swim more or less every day.”
“I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful”
“Science is not just for an elite few. Science's vision of the universe is becoming increasingly inaccessible. That doesn't mean it's wrong. On some levels, general relativity is right, because we have to take its calculations into account to produce accurate GPS systems. Instrumentally, it's correct to something like twenty decimal places. But epistemologically and psychologically, it is not available to most of our population.”
“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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