"Balzac says that many young husbands are so ignorant of women that they make him think of orang-outangs trying to play the violin."
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"I don’t like eating in the dark. Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they’re trying to hide the food."
— Michael Kurland
"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."
— Isaac Asimov
"An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self defeat."
— Guy Finley
"One of the astounding qualities of that family was their capacity to fill innocent bystanders with thoughts of murder."
— Tom Baker
"A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of."
— Paul Graham