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“I read somewhere that the boatman who rowed King William back across the river after the Battle of the Boyne is supposed to have asked the King which side won … To which the King replied: “What’s it to you? You’ll still be a boatman.”
― J.G. Farrell, The Singapore Grip

“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.”
― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering