Appearance Quote by Bjarne Stroustrup

I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not…

— Alexander Stepanov

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

— Zora Neale Hurston

We will soon be living in an era in which we cannot guarantee survivability of any single point. However, we can still design systems…

— Paul Baran

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

— John Milton

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

— Juvenal

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

— Miguel de Icaza

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

— Rumi

Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

— Anais Nin

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

— e. e. cummings

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

— Eckhart Tolle

Virtuality will destroy reality.

— Paul Virilio