All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.” — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Then...there was no sorcery?" Lannister snorted. "Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“I walked past Malison, up Lower Main to Main and across the road. I didn’t need to look to know he was… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
“Sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion.” — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
“She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage” — Gail Dayton Copy Share Image
I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are people who do, what we would call, lower sorcery. It is best not to be concerned with them. They are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Now what?” asked Fat Charlie. “Shall we all join hands and contact the living?” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them; they devastate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity. — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
