Coherency Market Quotes & Sayings

I was recently cautioned about some 'difficult' characters in a work-in-progress, and I was surprised at first to hear them labeled as such. On second glance, there was nothing more difficult about them than anyone I know. But in a book you are privy to an interior world which exposes the uglier parts that in life we get to hide. Arguably, all characters should be somewhat unlikable. — Lisa Lutz

One of the big changes at the heart of Web 2.0 is the shift from the creation of software artifacts, which is what the PC revolution was about, to the creation of software services. These are services that ultimately, if they are successful, will require competencies of operation, of scale, and the like. — Tim O'Reilly

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things. — Surya Das

When a customer clicks through the license conditions to play the game, they're agreeing to add their phone as a node in a distributed server. More players equal more servers - not for themselves, I might add, we never run a server node for any given game on the same host as a client for that game, that would be asking for trouble - but at the back end, we're in the processor arbitrage market. The game programmers' biggest problems are maintaining causality and object coherency while minimizing network latency - sorry, — Charles Stross

You feel it too, don't you?" "Feel?" "The heat between us," he clarified, and grinned as she shook her head unconvincingly. "I-I can't get involved," she said brokenly. "Why?" "It's my business, Jeb." "I'll make it mine. — Lietha Wards

Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him. — Mark Driscoll

Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad. — A.O. Scott

He talked to White Fang as White Fang had never been talked to before. He talked softly and soothingly, with a gentleness that somehow, somewhere, touched White Fang. In spite of himself and all the pricking warnings of his instinct, White Fang began to have confidence in this god. He had a feeling of security that was belied by all his experience with men. — Jack London

He'd come to the Foxhole Court every inch a lie, but his friends made him into someone real. — Nora Sakavic

The future started yesterday, and we're already late. — John Legend

I'm a big tandem bike rider ... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day. — Miranda Cosgrove

The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there. — Frederick Lenz

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man. — Bryant H. McGill

The way one's mind can dash about just while one opens a window. — Dodie Smith

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that. — Mark Knopfler

Art thieves steal more than beautiful objects; they steal memories and identities. They steal history. — Robert K. Wittman