#po

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#mark #mature #out #pointless #programmer

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. ↗

— John Cleese

#better #get #i #i can #ideas

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#bit #bounce #go #i #me

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing. ↗

— John Cleese

#dinner #doing #else #everyone #family

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force. ↗

— John Cleese

#force #i #i think #money #most

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London. ↗

— John Cleese

#another #beat #bunch #going #i

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#ask #believe #best #doing #every

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#both #british #cleaning #comes #conservative

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

In rereading one of the best essays I know on Dante's Paradiso, Giovanni Getto's "Aspetti della poesia di Dante" (Aspects of Dante's Poetry, 1947), one can see that there is not one single image of Paradise that does not stem from a tradition that was part of the medieval reader's heritage, I won't say of ideas, but of daily fantasies and feelings. It is from the biblical tradition and the church fathers that these radiances come from, these vortices of flame, these lamps, these suns, these brilliances and brightnesses emerging "like a horizon clearing" (Par. 14.69)...For medieval man, reading about this light and luminosity was equivalent to when we dream about the sinuous gracefulness of a movie star, the elegant lines of a car...It is this appeal to a poetry of understanding that can make the Paradiso fascinating even for the modern reader who has lost the reference points familiar to his medieval counterpart. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#poetry-of-understanding #dreams