http://tumbledesign.com/what-i-learned-when-i-fell-in-love-with-piano-scales/
Quote: Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Quote: Heinz Holliger
To put it rather bluntly, normal people do not compose – or they compose like Carl Czerny or Murzio Clementi. You need a certain amount of openness and non-conformism to be creative. People who are considered mad have not been taught by life to wall up their openness and they have more direct contact to their unconscious.
Quote: Random Machinery
…it’s part of my triumph of an argument with creation.
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Unwavering consistency to a limited set of possibilities is the crutch of a weak mind; the willingness to carve out facets from a defined system is the sign of a stronger mind recognizing that system’s interaction with the sublime.
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If an interface is both simple and logical enough to handle the most common use situations elegantly it is likely also flexible enough to handle the uncommon 10%.
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Providing access to the internals of an API as a way for the programmer to “have more control” is really just an acknowledgement of laziness or incompetence on the part of the architect.
Quote: Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma –which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Quote: D.H. Lawrence
All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind wake in the day to find that it was vanity.
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
Quote: Artistotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able entertain a thought
without accepting it.