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“It made Alice realize how much of life was full of empty stuff, objects longed for because the hope of them made your small life seem bigger, better, brighter.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“Every software program relates to some activity or interest of its user.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“A model is a selectively simplified and consciously structured form of knowledge.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“The heart of software is its ability to solve domain-related problems for its user.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“If any cunt hunter comes for me, Grandmother says to kill him.”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“Command might prefer titanium soldiers with replaceable parts.”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“The most complex programs in existence are used for consumer analysis. They’re everywhere, watching and analyzing every aspect of our lives. The amount of data gathered on any one of us is mind-boggling—but”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“Is that a robo-rat?”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“because it’s easier to pay our taxes than to risk our livelihoods by trying to change the system.”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“it’s better for him if we’re blown out of the sky. That way we can’t testify against him.”
― Linda Nagata, The Red: First Light

“In the old waterfall method, the business experts talk to the analysts, and analysts digest and abstract and pass the result along to the programmers, who code the software. This approach fails because it completely lacks feedback.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“Knowledge trickles in one direction, but does not accumulate.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“That shallowness of knowledge produces software that does a basic job but lacks a deep connection to the domain expert’s way of thinking.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“When we set out to write software, we never know enough.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“there should be some learning when a domain model is discussed.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“The domain experts had learned more and had clarified the goal of the application.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“The kind of knowledge captured in a model such as the PCB example goes beyond “find the nouns.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“Business activities and rules are as central to a domain as are the entities involved; any domain will have various categories of concepts.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“Knowledge crunching is an exploration, and you can’t know where you will end up.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“Translation muddles model concepts, which leads to destructive refactoring of code.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“The indirectness of communication conceals the formation of schisms—different team members use terms differently but don’t realize it.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“The effort of translation prevents the interplay of knowledge and ideas that lead to deep model insights.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“By using the model-based language pervasively and not being satisfied until it flows, we approach a model that is complete and comprehensible, made up of simple elements that combine to express complex ideas.”
― Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

“She had displayed a particular softness for religion, so he had tried to introduce her to the ideas, sometimes foreign, sometimes contradictory, that formed the essence of other faiths, to show her that these were all man-made inventions, and one could not be preferred over the other.”
― Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

“What, after all, did the word ‘faith’ connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?”
― Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

“was it they who were flawed, or was it he?”
― Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

“He lifted his head and let it thud several times to the floor. Maybe that would send Reason whimpering back into its cave.”
― Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

“existence a temporary delusion—hadn”
― Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu

“how many of these innocent-looking people had dark thoughts like Jess did, even as she smiled back at them?”
― Matthew Mather, Nomad

“These wars were one last chance to enact revenge, one last chance to show God was on their side.”
― Matthew Mather, Nomad