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«As Romeo Irving reminded me of a pig who has been taught to play the fiddle. He did it cleverly, but would be better employed in squealing.»
«Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.»
«If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.»
Author: Harold Abelson
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Computers,
Learning
| Keywords:
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«A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone»
«The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.»
«ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune»
«We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.»
«There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.»
«A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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clothed, fiddles, flutes, hammer, pianos, saxophone, saxophones, scattering, seashore, thump, thumping, thumps, tribe, trumpets, Two Tribes, youngest
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