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“Finally, it is one aim of this book to press home the point that the logical issue is between Theism and Atheism. That there is no logical halting place between the two, and that any attempt to call a halt is little more than a concession to a desire for mental or social convenience, seems to me as clear as anything can well be.”
― Chapman Cohen, Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

“We who know both sides know that in giving up the belief in deity we have lost nothing of value, nothing that need cause us a single regret. And on that point we certainly can speak with authority; for we have been where the Theist is, he has not been where we are.”
― Chapman Cohen, Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

“Each stage of theistic belief grows out of the preceding stage, and if it can be shown that the beginning of this evolution arose in a huge blunder I quite fail to see how any subsequent development can convert this unmistakable blunder into a demonstrable truth.”
― Chapman Cohen, Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

“Civilised man does not discover gods, he discards them.”
― Chapman Cohen, Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

“The deity they want, is, of course, finite, a person much like themselves, with thoughts and feelings limited and mutable in the process of time.... And for their purpose, what is not this is really nothing.”
― Chapman Cohen, Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

“The relation demanded by religion between man and God must be of a personal character. No man can love a pure abstraction; he might as reasonably fall in love with a triangle or profess devotion to the equator. The God of religion must be a person, and it is precisely that, as a controlling force of the universe, in which modern thought finds it more and more difficult to believe, and which modern science decisively rejects.”
― Chapman Cohen, Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

“There is no exception to the fact that men have everywhere come to the conclusion that the earth was flat, and yet a wider and truer knowledge proved that universal belief to be quite false. The fact of a certain belief being universal only warrants the assumption that the belief itself has a cause, but it tells us nothing whatever concerning its truthfulness.”
― Chapman Cohen, Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

“The wide range of religious ideas and their existence at a very low culture stage, precludes the assumption that religious ideas are generated in the same conscious way as are scientific theories.”
― Chapman Cohen, Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

“All that we can say is that the belief in God is universal—with those who believe in him. And even here universality of belief is only secured by their refraining from discussing precisely what it is they mean by "God," and what it is they believe in. There is agreement in obscurity, each one dreading to see clearly the features of his assumed friend for fear he should recognise the face of an enemy.”
― Chapman Cohen, Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

“Back in my days working in the Bell Labs Software Production Research organization (Production, indeed!) we had some back-of-the-envelope findings that suggested that consistent indentation style was one of the most statistically significant indicators of low bug density.”
― Martin Robert C., Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

“If names are too clever, they will be memorable only to people who share the author’s sense of humor, and only as long as these people remember the joke. Will they know what the function named HolyHandGrenade is supposed to do? Sure, it’s cute, but maybe in this case DeleteItems might be a better name. Choose clarity over entertainment value.”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

“If you throw a checked exception from a method in your code and the catch is three levels above, you must declare that exception in the signature of each method between you and the catch. This means that a change at a low level of the software can force signature changes on many higher levels.”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

“So the question is: Do you want your tools organized into toolboxes with many small drawers each containing well-defined and well-labeled components? Or do you want a few drawers that you just toss everything into?”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

“Uma dúvida comum sobre essa função é: um engenheiro de dados precisa ter conhecimento em programação? Respondendo brevemente: sim. Um engenheiro de dados precisa ter habilidades avançadas em engenharia de software.”
― Joe Reis, Fundamentos de Engenharia de Dados: Projete e Construa Sistemas de Dados Robustos