She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. –Mark Twain After you’ve lived with a parrot for a decade, this makes sense.
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologian, 1741-1801 I found this quote on ThinkExist. It’s the same usage of the word “intuition” that Jung uses in his personality theory…. I should research it to see if there is a connection.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word ‘frustration’. Alan Jay Perlis (1922-1990) US computer scientist
“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it–don’t cheat with it.” “As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.” “An intelligent [...]
