"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is."

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Source : "Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses" by Leslie Lamport, www.wired.com. January 25, 2013.

Leslie Lamport

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“Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Liberty is dangerous.”
“One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.”
“Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.”
“If you fall in love based on zero hours spent with me? That's maybe something to be aware of. That will fade fast. You can't be in love with a google search.”
“My uncle used to love me, but she died.”

Source : Song: My Uncle Used to Love Me but She Died, Album: Words and Music
“Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.”
“Defense is not like other discretionary spending.”

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