Archive - Aug 2007 - Quotes

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3047

"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

I Resolved To Write A Blog

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a blog.

Illogical Idea Of A Single Religion

"The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality."

2772

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."

2636

"Los enemigos de la Patria, por consiguiente nuestros, están muy acordes en estas ideas: destruir la Nacionalidad aunque para ello sea preciso aniquilar a la nación entera."

2635

"Y si alguna de las cosas que decimos las explota el enemigo y nos producen profunda vergüenza, ¡¡bienvenida sea la vergüenza!!... ¡¡bienvenida sea la pena!!, si sabemos convertir la vergüenza en fuerza, si sabemos convertir la vergüenza en espíritu de trabajo, si sabemos convertir la vergüenza en dignidad, si sabemos convertir la vergüenza en moral"

2634

"Escribir es como hacer el amor. No te preocupes por el orgasmo, preocúpate del proceso."