"Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist."

-- Anita Borg

#Community Quotes #Computer Quotes #Existence Quotes

“It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it”
“It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.144, Cambridge University Press
“The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope the book helps to do is help people clarify what is amiss, by presenting a critique that is grounded in economics.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If you understood him, it would not be God.”
“They danced by the light of the moon.”

Source : "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)
“Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.”
“Here is what Muslims and Muslim organizations are expected to say: "As a Muslim, I condemn this attack and terrorism in any form." This expectation we place on Muslims, to be absolutely clear, is Islamophobic and bigoted.”
“There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.”

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