Mohamed Oun > Mohamed's Quotes

“العــشـق : مـرض نـتـخـيـّل أننـا نـشـفـى مـنـه .. فـقـط لأن لا أحـد يـمـوت بـسـبـبـه نـظـريـا”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“سؤال؛ هل تعرف الفرق بين حبيبة سابقة لم تظفر بها لأسباب تتعلق بسلوكك وحبيبة أصبحت زوجتك؟ الإجابة لا فرق.. إنه عشب الضفة المقابلة الذى سيبدو دائمًا وأبدًا أكثر اخضرارًا طالما لم تطأه قدمك.”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“الربط بين حلاقة الشعر، ونعيمًا سيظل لغز لا حل له.”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“اللي اعرفه.. ! قائلها غير واثق أو لا يملك معلومة.”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“من كتاب (لذة الفيل في استنزاف الزميل الفصيل)..
(.. هناك شخص تعي تماما أنه -بلا جدال- سيمزقك غلا بعد طعنك,ثم يضع في زهو بصمات كفه ملطخة بدمائك على حائط بطولاته,ولن يكتفي حتى يسلخك حيا بسكين خشبي قبل أن يفرش جلدك على الأرض سجادة لضيوفه،سيضع نابك فخرا في سلسلة على صدره ويصنع من جمجمتك منفضة لسجائره.)
لم تعطيه فرصة الاستمتاع بكل تلك ال"Options" مجانا ؟
لم لا تغلق عينيه ببصقتك أو تحشر في حلقه نعل حذائك ؟”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق

“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

“Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Don't be a slave to history. Don't let existing code dictate future code. All code can be replaced if it is no longer appropriate. Even within one program, don't let what you've already done constrain what you do next -- be ready to refactor... This decision may impact the project schedule. The assumption is that the impact will be less than the cost of /not/ making the change.”
― Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

“You Can't Write Perfect Software. Did that hurt? It shouldn't. Accept it as an axiom of life. Embrace it. Celebrate it. Because perfect software doesn't exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It's unlikely that you'll be the first. And unless you accept this as a fact, you'll end up wasting time and energy chasing an impossible dream.”
― Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

“The editor will be an extension of your hand; the keys will sing as they slice their way through text and thought.”
― Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

“The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.”
― Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

“August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon.”
― Franz Kafka