"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

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Source : "The Wizardry Compiled". Book by Rick Cook, 1989.

Rick Cook

#Winning Quotes #Technology Quotes #Race Quotes

“I think [Pablo Escobar] wasted an incredibly opportunity which was when he stayed at the prison he made, La Catedral. It was the one chance that the government and the people of Colombia gave him to confess his illicit activities and to remain in one place with very favorable conditions.”
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
“The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.”
“That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.”
“We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.”
“Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.”

Source : Garth Nix (2009). “Abhorsen”, p.23, Zondervan
“I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.”

Source : Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

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