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#pencil

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I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.


Robert Wyatt


#appropriate #down #how #i #just

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.


Paul Graham


#already #expressing #language #pen #pencil

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.


John Burns


#improper #pencils #their #use #want

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.


Edsger Dijkstra


#axe #axes #blunt #equally #impossible

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.


Eugenio Montale


#everyone #grasp #paper #pencil #piece

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.


Earl Nightingale


#bedside #before #best #during #elusive

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.


Carl Reiner


#comedians #pencils #pens #really #riff

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.


Darrell Royal


#excellent #four #golf #got #i

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.


John Steinbeck


#fingers #i #letter #long #long time

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.


Balthus


#cannot #draw #eyes #must #pencil






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