#imitation

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#flaws #however #java #language #limitations

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#man #opinions #attitude

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. ↗

— Ngaio Marsh

#models #reading #style #writing #death

They say to think within the box, but it's funny how those in the box never go anywhere, where those outside it, get to see the world. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#horizon #limitations #outside-the-box #see-the-world #stuck

We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#humor #imitation #humor

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #imagination #limitations #imagination

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#influence #inspiration #inspirational

Fake sUCKs! ↗

— Toba Beta

#imitation #life #real #truth #life

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#any #anyone #around #been #cat

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#limitations #mind #struggle #life