top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
Standard
Customized
More
"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
Computer
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
Experience
"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
Mathematics
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."
Learning
"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."
Elegance
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
Suspicion
"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
Immortality
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
Idea
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
Mind
"The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings."
Quality
bottom of page