"If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas."

-- Hal Abelson

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“I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.”

Source : Anita Loos (1977). “Cast of Thousands”, Smithmark Pub
“For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.”
“By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?”
“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.”
“I was 'alone' amongst the animal kingdom and I required of myself to see what was truly going on inside me so that my own true potential could step forth. Therefore I died so that heaven could show me who I had become, within that showing me to myself as who I am, what I am going to be doing and where all of you fit into the picture.”
“It's so much better to desire than to have.”
“In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.”
“As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.”

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