“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
John Keating, Dead Poets Society (via senshuk)
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter catching your its and it’s issues or reminding you of the rules regarding that or which. Here’s the rub: there is a compiler and it’s fucking brutal. It’s your readers. Your readers are far more critical than the Python interpreter. Not only do they care about syntax, but they also want to learn something, and, perhaps, be entertained while all this learning is going down. Success means they keep coming back - failure is a lonely silence. Python is looking pretty sweet now, right?”
Rands In Repose: Please Learn to Write (via deplorableword)
Finely, I have completed the entire Stargate series marathon and not for the first time although this was my first re-watch of Stargate Universe.
Gauntlet the last episode of Stargate Universe was as good as one could have hoped for. Even though it was never meant to be the series finale, it did that job beautifully.
But there is no denying the bitter aftertaste left by the cancellation of the series now over a year ago, of never knowing what might have been, of what destiny awaited them.
It is just a damn shame.
“XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.”
Unknown
“I’m not just interested in outer space; I’m from outer space.”
Martin Lloyd
“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can’t know. He can’t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can’t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn’t got and which if he had it, would save him.”
Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men
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