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Quotes from Glenn Gould

Wanted:

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It was 2:20 in the afternoon. I sat in the dark jungle of crowds. The huge logo above the screen looked bizarre as an EIGHT and I examined it on the ticket from side to side ---- Got it ! That's a Mobius band.

Computing in the 21st Century Conference of this year focused on the challenge of quality software. The topics were interesting and the talks were delivered very well. These wonderful people have reminded me of dreams that were deliberately forgotten and possibilities reluctantly denied. What they were and they are doing are really cool things ---- study, think,and create ---- with curiousity and naivete of humankind. Lives filled with these things are beautiful.

There were many impressive quotes in their slides. And here is one from Pat Hanrahan's:

"What are the three most important words in programming?"
"Abstraction, abstraction and abstraction."
--- Paul Hadak

“……托利亚和斯拉瓦的演奏令人惊讶。战争触动了青年们，也触动了象我这样的老头。不久以前，公布了我提出的在全俄戏剧协会演奏席曼诺夫斯基作品的报告，然后由我、托利亚和斯拉瓦担任演出任务。斯拉瓦的演奏富有独创性。10月19日，演出将在小剧场举行。”

         我记忆力惊人，好到无法忍受。我去过不少城市，在那里遇见过五十来人，他们的名字全留在我脑子里，我都记得，这简直是折磨！还有我的所有朋友！以及朋友的朋友！每当我开始旅行，就会受到这种折磨，无论在俄国还是西方，都一样！

Sviatoslav Richter