“Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)”
“We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.”
Source: Long Day's Journey Into Night
“A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.”
Strip from November 18, 2006
Bucky Katt
In Playboy Interviews http://books.google.com/books?id=rfoZAAAAYAAJ, Playboy Press, 1967, p. 100
“A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.”
As quoted in The New York Times Magazine (7 February 1965)
“Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.”
The Computer Revolution hasn't happend yet — 1997 OOPSLA Keynote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
Alternative: I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Attributed to Alan Kay in: Peter Seibel (2005) Practical Common Lisp. p.189
1990s
“I'm just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon.”
Source: Jsem jen alkoholik, co se stal spisovatelem, aby mohl zůstat v posteli do poledne.
“Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.”
Source: I Lived to Tell It All (1996, ebook 2014), Page 205.
