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Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things. Bill Gates
It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value... Jonathan Franzen
People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way. Martin Amis
If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us," I said. "Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters. James Patterson
George Saunders quote: "My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on..."
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day. George Saunders
Tom Hanks quote: "Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring..."
Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day. Tom Hanks
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus. Oswald Chambers
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more. Isaac Asimov
Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl. Terry Prachett
Virginia Woolf quote: "No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it..."
No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes. Virginia Woolf
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence. Oscar Wilde
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions. Albert Camus
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a..."
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. Ernest Hemingway
Charles Fort quote: "We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out,..."
We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out Charles Fort
James Baldwin quote: "I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do."
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do. James Baldwin

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