Indirection Quotes

#1. We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.

Butler Lampson

#2. Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.

Pamela Erens

#3. The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#4. I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life.

John Ashbery

#5. Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

Italo Calvino

#6. Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

Euripides

#8. So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

Marlon Riggs

#9. All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

Butler Lampson

#10. There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Rob Pike

#11. The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

Max Lerner

#12. Never do anything directly that you can do by indirection.

August Mardesich

#13. It is often mild distraction that moves imagination forward, not uninterrupted concentration. Thinking then works by indirection, sauntering in a roundabout way to places it cannot reach directly.

Rebecca Solnit

#14. In nightmares, we can't look into our own eyes except by indirection, perhaps because we fear discovering that therein lie the worst monsters plaguing us.

Dean Koontz

#15. I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.

John F. Kennedy

#16. Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.

Alfred Kazin

#17. For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash 75By any indirection.

William Shakespeare

#18. I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

Lauren Willig

#19. Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

Malcolm Gladwell

#20. The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Robert H. Schuller

#21. When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Toni Morrison

#22. There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

Mos Def

#23. All movements go too far.

Bertrand Russell

#24. Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

John Sterling

#25. Oh, my beauty!
Oh, my reflection of life!
Oh, my unmet desires!
I am longing for you
tor now and forever!

Debasish Mridha

#26. In life we stumble across a lot of things and people who we believe are irreplaceable. But nothing really is irreplaceable until we ensure so. It's all about what we really want.

Mansi Soni

#27. I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.

Howard Hughes

#28. looked at the plaster on her arm,

Lindsay J. Pryor

#29. Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

Andy Cohen

#30. One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

Mario Batali

#31. Whoa! Hey, what are you doing?
I'm attaching myself to you. Because I'm a kid.
Spoil me.

Peach-Pit

#32. There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

Roland Emmerich

#33. I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

Grigori Perelman