A Quote by Grady Booch
The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.
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Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.
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My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
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I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.
My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.
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Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.
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Perhaps that is what life is all about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.
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