Mark Jason Dominus quotes

“I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.”
-- Mark Jason Dominus

#Book Quotes #Library Quotes #Immortality Quotes

“In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.”
-- Mark Jason Dominus

Source : The Perl Review Interview, April 7, 2005.

#Years Quotes #Laughing Quotes #People Quotes

“The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.”
-- Mark Jason Dominus

#Names Quotes #Size Quotes #Computer Quotes

“Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.”
-- Mark Jason Dominus

Source : "My Life With Spam". www.perl.com. February 9, 2000.

#Way Quotes #Heuristics Quotes #Fancy Quotes

“A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!”
-- Mark Jason Dominus

Source : "Boring Answers to Powell's Questions". blog.plover.com. October 19, 2006.

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Long Quotes

“American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.”
-- Mark Jason Dominus

#Forbidden Quotes #Stance Quotes

“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”

“In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.”

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.”

“Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.”

“Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.”

“Every death is like the burning of a library.”

“To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake”