#sequence

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#construction #program #refinement #sequence #steps

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative. ↗

— George Woodcock

#consequence #dramatically #negative #often #very

Mom always liked to say that we hardly ever know the decisions we make that change our lives, mostly because they are little ones. You took this bus instead of that one and ended up meeting your soul mate, that kind of thing. But there was no doubt in my mind that this was one of those life-changing moments. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#decisions #life #change

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#choices-and-consequences #parenthood #change

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences. ↗

— Walt Alston

#consequences #forget #look #misfortune #panic

They are talking like fools. They are saying that two and two make nothing. They are saying that a man will have to die to in order to protect his life. If you agree to fight you agree to die. Now if you die to protect your life you aren't alive anyhow so how is there any sense in a thing like that? A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving. He doesn't say I will spend all my money in order to save money. He doesn't say I will burn my house to down in order to keep it from burning. Why then should he be willing to die for the privilege of living? ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#free-will #death

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#consequence #continues #day #high #remain

Maybe Lindsay and I are best friends and we hate each other, both. Maybe I’m only one math class away from being a slut like Anna Cartullo. Maybe I am like her, deep down. Maybe we all are: just one lunch period away from eating alone in the bathroom. I wonder if it’s ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#life-and-living #life

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#calms #consequences #excess #fatal #heats

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#breaking #consequences #decision #disastrous #explore