Miloš

“If the application is event-driven, it can be decoupled into multiple self-contained components. This helps us become more scalable, because we can always add new components or remove old ones without stopping or breaking the system. If errors and failures are passed to the right component, which can handle them as notifications, the application can become more fault-tolerant or resilient. So if we build our system to be event-driven, we can more easily achieve scalability and failure tolerance, and a scalable, decoupled, and error-proof application is fast and responsive to users.”
― Nickolay Tsvetinov, Learning Reactive Programming with Java 8

“Yet when, one day, standing on the outskirts of Yokohama town, bristling with its display of modern miscellanies, I watched the sunset in your southern sea, and saw its peace and majesty among your pine-clad hills,—with the great Fujiyama growing faint against the golden horizon, like a god overcome with his own radiance,—the music of eternity welled up through the evening silence, and I felt that the sky and the earth and the lyrics of the dawn and the dayfall are with the poets and idealists, and not with the marketmen robustly contemptuous of all sentiment,—that, after the forgetfulness of his own divinity, man will remember again that heaven is always in touch with his world, which can never be abandoned for good to the hounding wolves of the modern era, scenting human blood and howling to the skies.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism

“Clever lies become matters of self-congratulation. Solemn pledges become a farce—laughable for their very solemnity. The Nation, with all its paraphernalia of power and prosperity, its flags and pious hymns, its blasphemous prayers in the churches, and the literary mock thunders of its patriotic bragging, cannot hide the fact that the Nation is the greatest evil for the Nation, that all its precautions are against it, and any new birth of its fellow in the world is always followed in its mind by the dread of a new peril.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism

“Novski se borio da u svojoj smrti, da u svom padu, sačuva dostojanstvo ne samo svog lika nego i lika revolucionara uopšte, a Fedjukin je nastojao u svom traganju za fikcijom i za uslovnostima da sačuva
strogost i doslednost revolucionarne pravde i onih koji tu pravdu dele; jer bolje je da strada takozvana istina jednog jedinog čoveka, jednog sićušnog organizma, nego da se zbog njega dovedu u pitanje viši principi i interesi. I ako se tokom kasnijeg razvoja istrage Fedjukin ustremljivao na svoje tvrdoglave žrtve, to dakle nije bio hir neurotična čoveka i kokainiste, kako neki veruju, nego borba za sopstvena uverenja koja je, kao i žrtva, smatrao nesebičnim, neprikosnovenim i svetim. Ono što je izazivalo njegov bes i njegovu lojalnu mržnju, to bejaše upravo ta bolećiva sebičnost optuženih, njihova patološka potreba da dokažu svoju nevinost, svoju sopstvenu malu istinu, to neurotično vrćenje u krugu takozvanih činjenica obuhvaćenih merdijanima svoje tvrde lobanje, a da ta njihova slepa istina nije u stanju da se stavi u sistem jedne više vrednosti, jedne više pravde, koja traži da joj se prinesu žrtve i koja ne vodi i ne sme da vodi računa o ljudskim slabostima.”
― Danilo Kiš, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich