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- Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing… — Max Lerner
- I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which… — John Ashbery
- All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection. — Butler Lampson
- I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with… — Philip Yancey
- Too much zeal offends where indirection works. — Euripides
- Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed… — Alfred Kazin
- There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection. — Rob Pike