Frano Jančić

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things—eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies—since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.”
― Seneca

“We invented a way of solving problems by simply making it the other guy’s problem. It’s called ​specialization of labor, and it’s as simple as that. That’s how the humans differ from chimpanzees: they never invented that.”
― Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages