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“The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.”

“Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.”

Ifs Play Rooms Support Comedy Cutting Written Lows Drawing Kitchen Stable

Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.”

Needs Two Happens Dark Rooms Poet Lows Window Beer Ran Prose Sunlight Inns Haze Dark Room

Author:R. S. Thomas

“The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.”

Want Looks Whole Rooms Class Feet Particular Lows Males Very Good Manners Good Man Shells Shocked Beam Scottish Reactionaries Good Manners Banging Upper Class Male Chauvinist

Author:Jilly Cooper

“Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.”

Ifs Littles Funny Rooms Fire Fronts Son Arms Essentials Lows Humorous Constitution Lays Corners Warm Sat Brown Chairs Baskets Toasts Muffins

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“If you have 8-foot ceilings, you'll want a low sofa, which gives the impression that the ceiling is taller than it is. In a room with a high ceiling, you want a high-back sofa to be a weighty presence that can hold up to the room.”

Ifs Want Giving Rooms Feet Lows Impression Ceilings Sofas

Author:David Easton

“An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply low rental.”

Dark Rooms Conditions Lows Regard Stable Foul Basements Contractor Tenements Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road.”

People Causes Rooms Taken Lows Recreation High Road Taking The High Road Parks And Recreation Parks And Rec

Author:Aziz Ansari