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| 2c2d1cf | Surely... the great mountains of the world are a present remedy if men did but know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time. They know the ways of the sun and the wind, the lightning's fiery feet, the frost that shattereth, the rain that shroudeth, the snow that putteth about their nakedness a softer coverlet than fine lawn: which if their large philosophy question not if it be a.. | E.R. Eddison | ||
| d4a8e11 | Are ye ta'en with the swindle or the turn-sickness? Or are ye out of your wits? | insult | E.R. Eddison | |
| 46db7fc | Power does not make safe. History murders the children of weak rulers. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 4e65a46 | An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices--wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices. The cook has another choice; he can turn up the heat. The result is often an omelette nothing can save--burned in one part, raw in another. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 604d811 | For the human makers of things, the incompletenesses and inconsistencies of our ideas become clear only during implementation. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| adf2a0b | Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them (Fig. 2.1). This is true of reaping wheat or picking cotton; it is not even approximately true of systems programming. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 64c0fec | Today I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality. Having a system architect is the most important single step toward conceptual integrity. These principles are by no means limited to software systems, but to the design of any complex construct, whether a computer, an airplane, a Strategic Defense Initiative, a Global Positioning System. After teaching a software engineering laboratory more than 20 time.. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| e8596c2 | Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program. | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ||
| 4176494 | It's the same for those who die and those that survive both are sad as the other | ichigo-kurosaki | Tite Kubo | |
| 60c76ca | People who use dirty methods to hurt others... will be destroyed with methods that are even dirtier than theirs!! That's what I call justice!! Not to mention... journalism!" - Wolfgangina Lalla Getto" | Tite Kubo | ||
| 91f95f4 | What of this "despair?" I know it all too well... because up until now... I've climbed up, kicked it in it's teeth, and surpassed it... over and over again just to make it to this very moment!" | despair faith hope strength | Tite Kubo | |
| 8c521c4 | We are men, and human words are all we have: even the Word of God is composed actually of the words of men." (HUNTING THE DIVINE FOX, by Robert Farrar Capon," | Suzette Haden Elgin | ||
| 105a5c0 | These are the times when we aficionados of the gas stove know we are on the side of God. | Julie Powell | ||
| aaaeeb3 | There is a law out there, if not of thermodynamics then of something equally primary and inescapable, that explains why everything from instant messaging to fabulous sex to aspic can in the end be defined as an illustration of the futility of existence. And it really, really sucks. | Julie Powell | ||
| bb1aea9 | I'm the kind of person, who, when bored or unhappy, either drinks myself into oblivion or cooks very unhealthy things; Sally is the kind of person who, when bored or unhappy, goes jogging or cleans the bathroom with a toothbrush or matriculates at rabbinical school. | Julie Powell | ||
| e9364b5 | Kiedy nie wierzy sie niebo, smierc jest stuprocentowym Koncem. Choc to sliczna mysl, nie wierze, ze Julia je w raju Sole Meuniere z Paulem. Wierze, ze jej cialo zostalo pogrzebane - pod bardzo fajnym nagrobkiem, nawiasem mowiac, ciekawe, czy zgadniecie, jakie ma epitafium - a mozg, serce, poczucie humoru i doswiadczenie, ktore sprawily, ze to cialo bylo Julia, znikly. Wszystko, co zostalo, znajduje sie w naszych wspomnieniach. Ale to tez ja.. | Julie Powell | ||
| 57c5ecb | Truths were carved from the identical wood as were lies--words--and so sank or floated with equal ease. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 469aea5 | Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow. | insight | R. Scott Bakker | |
| 3b27467 | Nigdy nie uwazal, ze ,,czyta" ksiazki. Jezyk byl w tym wypadku rownie zdradziecki, jak u hazardzisty, ktory przechwala sie wygrana partia, tak jakby sila lub determinacja wydarl losowi zwyciestwo, gdy tymczasem szczesliwy rzut sztonami nie byl niczym wiecej, jak tylko udana proba wykorzystania chwili wlasnej bezradnosci. Otwarcie ksiazki zas wiazalo sie z ryzykiem zupelnie innej miary. Otwierajac ksiazke, nie tylko stawal sie bezradny, nie .. | książki | R. Scott Bakker | |
| 3e0f429 | he knew that one never stood still, even while waiting. That sometimes the sheathed knife could cut the most throats of all. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 35a0b21 | It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| c8b58f6 | He saw clearly now why he so loved this species of war. On the field of battle, his every act was open to the scrutiny of others. Here, however, he stood outside scrutiny, enacted destiny from a place that transcended judgement or recrimination. He lay hidden in the womb of events. Like a God. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| c271279 | He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| fb1110a | a strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 185a670 | Ignorance was ever the iron of certainty, for it was as blind to itself as sleep. It was the absence of questions that made answers absolute--not knowledge! To | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 3ae1447 | Ignorance was ever the iron of certainty, for it was as blind to itself as sleep. It was the absence of questions that made answers absolute--not knowledge! | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 5a6ef3b | Whore. How many men had embraced her? How many gritty chins against her cheek? Always something to be endured. All of them punishing her for their need. Monotony had made them seem laughable, a long queue of the weak, the hopeful, the ashamed, the angered, the dangerous. How easily one grunting body replaced the next, until they became abstract things, moments of a ludicrous ceremony, spilling bowel-hot libations upon her, smearing her with.. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 544cb6b | Helplessness. If women were hope's oldest companions, it was due to helplessness. Certainly women often exerciced dreadful power over a single hearth, but the world between hearths belonged to men. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| a4b0801 | Intelligent people, Achamian had found, were typically less happy. The reason for this was simple: they were better able to rationalize their delusions. The ability to stomach Truth had little to do with intelligence--nothing, in fact. The intellect was far better at arguing away truths than at finding them. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| b38877e | This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late. -- | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| b20155a | Every woman knows there are only two kinds of men: those who feel and those who pretend. Always remember, my dear, though only the former can be loved, only the latter can be trusted. It is passion that blackens eyes, not calculation. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 45b0b9c | Almost all men prized the familiar path over the true. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 0dc484b | You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| dba3ed5 | Nothing makes fools of people quite like a luxurious life," Achamian said, shaking his head and nodding. "Ajencis says they confuse decisions made atop pillows for those compelled by stones. When they hear of other people being deceived, they're certain they would know better. When they hear of other people being oppressed, they're certain they would do anything but beg and cringe when the club is raised ..." "And so they judge," Mimara sai.. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| e1b7c79 | Gods are but greater demons," the Cishaurim said, "hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?" | religion | R. Scott Bakker | |
| 4523e21 | To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. --SCYLVENDI | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 046aacb | No intellect is orphaned, despite all the foundling hearts. All sons are born stranded because all fathers are sons. Every child is told, even those suckled on the teats of wolves. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| ea33520 | They would swear that the United States was their number one enemy, and yet carrying a pack of Marlboro Lights seemed to be a sign of privilege and class. | Suki Kim | ||
| 0fb6c4a | The nationalism that had been instilled in them for so many generations had produced a citizenry whose ego was so fragile that they refused to acknowledge the rest of the world. | Suki Kim | ||
| 4056ab5 | I was not sure if, having been told such lies as children, they could not differentiate between truth and lies, or whether it was a survival method they had mastered. | Suki Kim | ||
| 0c1ddec | Suddenly feeling overwhelmed, Talon said, 'It doesn't matter. They are all dead.' He felt moisture gathering in his eyes and blinked. 'It's been a while since I've felt that.' Caleb nodded. 'It never goes away, completely. But you'll discover other things in life. | hope painful-memories | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 2f2888f | the enemy of our enemy is our ally, | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 586da82 | In some worlds there seems to be a synergy, but for the most part, what Kalkin said to you is the root truth: they are merely personifications of natural forces given whatever powers they possess by their worshippers. They have aspects that are perceived by mortals, and attributes they can wield. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 46770f1 | One of the problems with being my age is you look at everyone who is younger as children, and when everyone else around you is younger, it means you live in a universe of children. So you tend to scold more than is proper. | Raymond E. Feist |