Neil Gaiman quotes

Posted on Mon 15 February 2021 in english

If you ever talked to me you probably noticed my Neil Gaiman fandom. Here are some reasons to love him:

Broken hearts

Q:

"How do you get over a broken heart?"

Neil Gaiman A:

"You don’t, ever. Not quite. But time can do amazing things. A deep wound scabs …


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Joe Armstrong on software reusability

Posted on Wed 24 February 2016 in english

"I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire …


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Doctorow on Gaiman on books

Posted on Fri 30 October 2015 in english

'I recently saw Neil Gaiman give a talk at which someone asked him how he felt about piracy of his books. He said, "Hands up in the audience if you discovered your favorite writer for free -- because someone loaned you a copy, or because someone gave it to you? Now …


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