"I have always argued that real programming is art: you take an idea, manipulate it and throw in some magic. Sometimes your creation works just as you dreamed - but sometimes it does not. When it does not work, you wipe everything away and try something different." (Jussi Raunio)
"Ah, how poets sing and die!
Make one song and Heaven takes it;
Have one heart and Beauty breaks it;
Chatterton, Shelley, Keats and I —
Ah, how poets sing and die!"
(Anne Spencer, "Dunbar")
"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven." (Walter Benjamin)
"The place where you lock yourself in and lock all else out - that is not your home. Your home is sometimes a place you travel long and far to find." (Geralt of Rivia, "Witcher 3")
"Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality." (Dalai Lama)
"There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance." (Buddha)
“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve." (Jane Austen)