Diamond Mining Quotes

#1. Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

Charles Simonyi

#2. We're two sides of an infinitesimally thin coin. Slice the coin thinner and thinner, and we get closer and closer to each other. We can slice it arbitrarily thin, let the limit of the thickness approach zero. Slice it until there's no one or nothing in between, until we meet at zero.

Charles Yu

#3. walking calendar of crime,

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. They wonder what is wrong with our country, but isn't it fairly obvious that if children are being treated like animals instead of rational beings, as adults they'll respond like monkeys?

Wen Spencer

#5. If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

#6. You humans always try to make things too simple, except when you're trying to make things too complicated. You can never just be with what is.

Angelo Dirks

#7. What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

Mark Twain

#8. He that once deceives is ever suspected.

George Herbert