Daniel Shiffman > Quotes

“There is nothing wrong with having grand visions, but the most important favor you can do for yourself is to learn how to break those visions into small parts and attack each piece slowly, one at a time.”
― Daniel Shiffman, Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction

“In the end, if this book is anything, it is really just a good old-fashioned programming book.
While a scientific topic may seed a chapter (Newtonian physics, cellular growth, evolution) or
the results might inspire an artistic project, the content itself will always boil down to the code
implementation, with a particular focus on object-oriented programming.”
― Daniel Shiffman, The Nature of Code

“That language is an instrument of human reason and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
-George Boole

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
-Fiona Apple”
― Daniel Shiffman, Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction