"Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose."

-- Fred Brooks

#Jobs Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Language Quotes

“In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.”
“Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.”
“One of the most important results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be.”
“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.
“Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.”
“I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne”
“Do whatever you must, Karigan," he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, "to come back. You must come back. To me." ~King Zachary”
“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.”

Source : "Sex and the Citadel" by Shereen El Feki, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2013.

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