“Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.”

— Jonathan Maberry , book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

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Karen Salmansohn American writer

“Life is security and daring,/ Life is protection and risk,/ Life is openness and closure,/ It is safety and adventure.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu (1957) Indian philosopher

Life: Relish It!
Life: Relish It! (2012)

“In the past scientists have repeatedly reached “intellectual closure” on inadequate pictures of the universe, and underestimated its scale.”

Frank Wilczek (1951) physicist

"Multiversality" (2013)

“Even at 95, I remember everything. Closure is never complete. I didn’t ask for Hollywood, it discovered me.”

Janis Paige (1922) actress

Harassment in Hollywood's Golden Age: A Survivor's Firsthand Story (Guest Column) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harassment-hollywoods-golden-age-survivor-janis-paiges-first-hand-story-1052498 (October 27, 2017)

“I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead. … Education itself — which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people — sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour … It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.”

Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922–2016) 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations

Quoted in "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster" by Gamal Nkrumah in Al-Ahram weekly No. 777 (10 - 18 January 2006)
2000s

“Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.”

Martin Amis book House of Meetings

Source: House of Meetings

“Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

[199710221744.KAA24484@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

“... I believe that the annihilation of even one soul spells a defeat of God’s purposes, a denial of Christ’s teaching and a closure of heaven against those who love the lost soul.”

Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian

Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.253 [ellipsis added]

“Life does not depend on the magic of Watson-Crick base pairing or any other specific template-replicating machinery. Life lies … in the property of catalytic closure among a collection of molecular species”

Stuart Kauffman (1939) American biophysicist

Source: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (1996), p.50 as cited in: Gert Korthof (1998)

“In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.”

Mark Jason Dominus (1969) American computer programmer

Interview with Mark Jason Dominus, April 7, 2005, January 17, 2011, The Perl Review, http://www.webcitation.org/5vo5J8kzO, January 17, 2011 http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/mjd-hop-20050407.html,

“Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.”

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