#at

History, a distillation of rumour. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#history #rumour

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with. ↗

— Tom Felton

#closest friends #conversation #friends #go #good

I plan to go to college in Southampton, a fishery studies college. Again, my brother was down there about two years ago and he said it was great, so I'm looking forward to that. ↗

— Tom Felton

#again #ago #brother #college #down

I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them. ↗

— Tom Felton

#big #breaks #cage #cool #fat

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#again #another #awakened #does #farther

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#devil #fact #facts #god #great

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#breadth #depth #height #linear #narrative

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#great #great discovery #literary #literary men #literature

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#each #far #foolish #himself #know

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other. ↗

— John Carmack

#addition #also #code #cost #each