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“What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.”
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“The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.”
Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
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“The law of England is a law of liberty .”
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“A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.”
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“It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.”
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“Programming is usually taught by examples.”
Source : "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM 14 (4): pp. 221-227, April 1971.
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“I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.”
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“Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself”
Source : William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.74, Penguin
