Donald Petersen quotes

“Genius is lasting 5 minutes longer than the other side”
-- Donald Petersen

#Genius Quotes #Sides Quotes #Minutes Quotes

“Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.”

“The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.”

“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

“It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.”

“Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.”

“The only serious side-effect of #‎ ***** is that you might get arrested.”

“My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .”

“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.”

“The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.”

Source : Carolyn Kinder Carr, Alice Neel (2002). “Alice Neel: women”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

“I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.”