“...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.”
― Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
― Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
“When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.”
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“Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?”
― Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
― Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...”
― Assholes Finish First
― Assholes Finish First
“It is not enough for code to work.”
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
― Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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