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Some Favorite Quotes

Posted by: Robert Fischer on April 1, 2010

No April 1st revelry today, but some quotes to enjoy.


“Nothing to be done.” I’m beginning to come around to that opinion. All my life I’ve tried to put it from me, saying, “Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven’t tried everything.” And I resumed the struggle. So there you are again.
(Vladimir, in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”)


“It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand!” (You see, she didn’t like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn’t make it out at all.) “Somehow it fills my head with ideas—only I don’t know what they are!”
(Alice, in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass”)


Von Zeit zu Zeit seh ich den Altern gern,
Und hüte mich, mit ihm zu brechen.
Es ist gar hübsch von einem großen Herrn,
So menschlich mit dem Teufel selbst zu sprechen.
(Der Teufel, from Goethe’s “Faust”)


Actually, another one from “Faust”, because it’s awesome. This one is for my M.Div peeps:

Habe nun, ach! Philosophie,
Juristerei und Medizin,
Und leider auch Theologie
Durchaus studiert, mit heißem Bemühn.
Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor!
Und bin so klug als wie zuvor;

Heiße Magister, heiße Doktor gar
Und ziehe schon an die zehen Jahr
Herauf, herab und quer und krumm
Meine Schüler an der Nase herum –
Und sehe, daß wir nichts wissen können!
Das will mir schier das Herz verbrennen.
(Faust, from Goethe’s “Faust”)


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Robert Fischer is a multi-language open source developer currently specializing in Groovy in Grails. In the past, his specialties have been in Perl, Java, Ruby, and OCaml. In the future, his specialty will probably be F# or (preferably) a functional JVM language like Scala or Clojure.

Robert is the author of Grails Persistence in GORM and GSQL, a regular contributor to GroovyMag and JSMag, the founder of the JConch Java concurrency library, and the author/maintainer of Liquibase-DSL and the Autobase database migration plugin for Grails.

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