Quotes
Here are some interesting, inspiring, thoughtful, funny, and perhaps wrong quotes.
“Men spend their lives adding and subtracting and dictating letters when secretly they long to write sonnets and play the violin and burst into tears at the sunset.”
– Brenda Ueland
The true role of collective existence … is to learn, to discover, to know. Eating, drinking, sleeping, living, in a word, is a mere accessory. In this respect, we are not distinguished from the brute. Knowledge is the goal. If I were condemned to choose between a humanity materially happy, glutted after the manner of a flock of sheep in a field, and a humanity existing in misery, but from which emanated, here and there, some eternal truth, it is on the latter my choice would fall.
– Alfred Naquet
“The future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed.”
– William Gibson
“What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish and radishes, and out of him come sighs, laughter and dreams.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?
– Chuang Tzu
“One reason many programmers don’t take compilers is that they’ve heard it’s really, really hard. It’s often the ‘capstone’ course of a CS program (OS often being the other one), which means it’s a sort of ‘optional rite of passage’ that makes you a Real Programmer and puts hair on your chest, regardless of gender or chest-hair preference.”
– Steve Yeggehttp://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food.html
