Thowral Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where the explicit curriculum is confined to mathematical results; how to do mathematics is something the student must absorb by osmosis, so to speak. One reason for preferring symbol-manipulating, calculating arguments is that their design is much better teachable than the design of verbal/pictorial arguments. Large-scale introduction of courses on such calculational methodology, however, would encounter unsurmoutable political problems. — Edsger Dijkstra

He checked his watch. "One more drink," Win said. "And then I will go in the other room because - oh, you'll love this - Mee so horny." I — Harlan Coben

She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate. — Paula Marantz Cohen

Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything.
-Lula — Janet Evanovich

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us. — Laurie Colwin

People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake is good. They like it, provided the message is wrapped up a little. And they like messages saying that murder is bad, cruelty is bad, and love is love is love is love. What they can't stand is to be told it all doesn't matter, they can't stand formlessness. — Doris Lessing

Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something. — Cory Booker

When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens. — Michael Jackson

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. — Knut Hamsun

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken. — Susan Vaught

The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all. — Alexander Pope

It is always about you for me. — Sarah Rees Brennan

men and women who'd constantly filed through our common room, wearing hoodies and piercings - uniform in their aversion to uniformity - to — Jeff Hobbs

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten. — Friedrich Nietzsche