I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
She watched him stop to pat the mayor on the back. He stumbled a little in the crowd, and his left hand disappeared ever so briefly inside the mayor’s tuxedo pocket. It was over in a flash, a blink, a second. And Macey was quite certain she was the only person in the entire room to have seen it, but that was just as well. At least, Macey had seen enough. And at last, the boy made sense. " — Double Crossed by Ally Carter
If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.
I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if we pause, watch and listen closely we'll see the multiplicity of ways in which people are sexed and gendered. There exists a range of personal identifications around woman, man, in-between-we don't even have names or pronouns that reflect that in between place but people certainly live in it.