"The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: [...] I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation."

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Fred Brooks

#Believe Quotes #Essence Quotes #Design Quotes

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.”

Source : Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.326, Cambridge University Press
“The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.”
“Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.”

Source : "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1899.
“I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able to be the strongest arms that they can be, incredibly strong. That's what keeps us going.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin, and make me feel alive again.”
“The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.”
“The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.”

Source : "Fictional character: Guy Forsyth". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.
“Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.”

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