Quotes | RomeoRaven

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

The map is not the territory.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Writing is part of the work. Not decoration after the work.

The map is not the work, but it keeps the work from disappearing.

What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

I opened up my mind and found that it wasn't my own.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves, or whether it should be ours here and now on this earth.

Too much sanity may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness; to seek treasure where there is only trash. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

He ponders the problem of how to make better a world where evil brings profit and virtue none at all; where fraud and deceit are mingled with truth and sincerity. He lays down the melancholy burden of sanity and conceives the strangest project ever imagined: to become a knight-errant, and sally forth into the world in search of adventures; to mount a crusade; to raise up the weak and those in need.

Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.