#m

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#away #completely #day #except #get

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#cosmos #god #matter #me #mystery

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#behavior #cage #crazy #element #fine

I don’t want you to be sorry. I don’t want you to be anything,” I snapped. Her expression was the final straw. Of course she didn’t want to be around me. I was an infantil asshole that had the emotional control of a three-year-old. I shoved away from the table and pushed through the door, not stopping until I was sitting on my bike. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beauty

I feel the life slipping out of me. When the pain comes, I cry out, but there is no prayer in it, only fear. I kneel and recite my office and the Rosary but the words are empty - dry gourds rattling in the silence. The dark is terrible and I feel so alone. I see no signs but the symbols of contradiction. I try to dispose myself to faith, hope and charity, but my will is a blown reed in the winds of despair. ↗

— Morris L. West

#christianity #faith #prayer #faith

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#computing #correctly #forever #once #performs

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#designer #exactness #experience #good #logic

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#enjoyment #expected #luxury #necessity #only

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#consists #contemplation #design #new #old

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#construction #courses #demonstrated #design #development