Astolfi Didactique Quotes & Sayings

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. — Edsger Dijkstra

Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity. — Ryan Holmes

And I cried ... for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins. — Sonia Sanchez

One thing, though," Qhuinn murmured.
"What?"
The voice that came out his throat was unlike anything he'd ever heard from himself before. "If any guy breaks your heart or treats you like shit, I will bust him apart with my bare hands and leave his broken, bloody body for the sun."
Blay's laughter rumbled around the tiled walls. "Of course you will
"
"I'm dead fucking serious."
Blay's blue eyes shot over his shoulder.
"If there are any who dare to hurt you," Qhuinn growled in the Old Language, "I shall see them staked afore me and shall leave their bodies in ruin. — J.R. Ward

The human race is a scummy thing, and so is Earth, and so are you. — Kurt Vonnegut

An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year. — Zach Galligan

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice. — Richard Rorty

With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces ... But a knowledge of the positions and intensities of the spectra does not suffice for the determination of the structure. The phases with which the diffracted waves vibrate relative to one another enter in an essential way. To determine a crystal structure on the atomic scale, one must know the phase differences between the different interference spots on the photographic plate, and this task may certainly prove to be rather difficult. — Max Von Laue

And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth? — Friedrich August Von Hayek

No matter what station you hold in life, there will always be things that will surprise you. Whether you choose to be outraged or delighted is up to you. — Karen Hawkins

If there is something comforting-religious , if you want-about paranoia-there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long. — Thomas Pynchon

Educated people may gain a lot of respect due to their in depth of knowladge about society. As a contrary, they would not gain a lot of respect, if they only have a very good financial status. — Saaif Alam

Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know. — Thiruvalluvar

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. — Julian Barnes

The world will give you relief once ina while, a brief time out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, were somebody dabs mrecy on your beat-up life. — Lily Owens