Doug Linder quotes

Doug Linder quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.”
-- Doug Linder

#Technology Quotes #Looks Quotes #Way Quotes

“They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologiesâ€¦the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.”
“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”
“Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.”
“An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.”
“Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.”

Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.
“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan
“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.”
“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press
“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”

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