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Attention Quotes - Page 15

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

"Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

William Stafford, Kim Robert Stafford (2003). “Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War”, p.34, Milkweed Editions

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.515, Routledge

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, Trisha Brown (1997). “Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective”, Guggenheim Museum Pubns

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers (1988). “Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs”, p.52, University of Michigan Press