"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."

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"We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Mind, Change, Perception

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Thought, Thoughts, Words

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Thought, Thoughts, Heaven, Words

"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."

Bryan Robson, English Athlete

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"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts, Eyes

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"

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"A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

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"One man's constant is another man's variable."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."

"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

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"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"

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"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."

"A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."

"One man's constant is another man's variable."

"LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing."

"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."