“I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.” WritingLongVoiceClassFiguresLong TimeFormal Author:Sara Zarr
“I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.” IfsMenLongTwoAmericaLong TimeJapanOld ManBowsFormalHelloSlapExchangingTwo Friends Author:Sessue Hayakawa
“The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.” PeopleKnowsLongDoneFormCasesMastersDiseaseCrisisTechniqueReasoningProgrammingSoftwareInvitesEngineeringFormalGuruSoftware EngineeringCharlatansQuacksIncurable Disease Author:Edsger Dijkstra