"Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)"

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Source : Charles Stross (2010). “Overtime: A Tor.Com Original”, p.30, Macmillan

Charles Stross

#Errors Quotes #Mad Quotes #Void Quotes

“One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.”

Source : Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.”
“I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.”
“I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.”

Source : Lionel Abel (1987). “Important Nonsense”
“When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.”
“The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.”
“My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 23, 2015.
“I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.”

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