"Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures."

-- Douglas Crockford

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“(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.”
“I'm beating down the Internet as we speak.”
“One day it was that I wanted to go make a movie with my kid and then another day it was that I wanted to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and another day it was that I wanted to sit in the studio and figure something out. All those things manifested themselves into what the TV show was.”

Source : Source: www.tvequals.com
“This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.”
“It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in the world is done by men who never taste anything but vegetable, farinaceous food, and that of the simplest kind. There are more strength-producing properties in wholemeal flour, peas, beans, lentils, oatmeal, roots, and other vegetables of the same class, than there are beef or mutton, poultry or fish, or animal food of any description whatever.”
“I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.”
“Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.”

Source : Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.90, Penguin
“I think you should stay with your trainers, with your team, and support them.”

Source : Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. March 16, 2011.

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