"If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it."

-- Richard E. Pattis

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“Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.”
“I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.”
“Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back againâ€¦, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.”

Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.
“I was shocked at the anger toward me.”
“In California, Jim Jones even staged a shooting of himself. The lesson of this was two-fold. One, that he was a god - he could heal himself. He had these magic powers. A large segment of his congregation came from a Pentecostal tradition that believed in faith healing and already believed Jones had the power to cure others. And two, the "shooting" made him seem important. Civil rights leaders were being gunned down - MLK, Jr., Medgar Evers, Malcolm X - and he longed to be considered as heroic and important as they were.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.”
“Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.”

Source : The Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. June 15, 1995.
“I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.”

Source : "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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