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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
"A Case Against the GOTO," Proceedings of the 25th National ACM Conference, August 1972, pp. 791-97.
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
Context: There is no reason to suppose that people today feel less than their grandfathers, but there is good reason to think that they are less able to read in a way which makes them feel. It is natural for them to blame books rather than themselves, and to demand fiction which is highly peppered, like a glutton whose palate is defective.
“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)
Source: Interview with Shigeru Miyamoto http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/shigeru-miyamoto-interview Eurogamer.net, published on 31 March 2010
“Who is allowed to sin, sins less.”
Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.
Book III, iv, 9
Amores (Love Affairs)
Attributed to Bonhoeffer on the internet, but this is from a remark about him, not by him, in Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy http://books.google.com/books?id=aG0q3X8TVpsC&pg=PA486#v=onepage (2010), p. 486.
Misattributed
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
Speech in the House of Commons, November 11, 1942 Debate on the address http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1942/nov/11/debate-on-the-address#column_39.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
'Modus Vivendi' (p.34)
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings (2009)
Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa...
e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osa
com'alma razional sanza ragione.
Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter XVI (tr. Mark Musa)
