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This is my favorite Terry Davis quote (from his website): ----10/02/13 02:34:50---- I used to drink when I was young. I would wake-up and think about my sham

by pubby 12y ago

This is my favorite Terry Davis quote (from his website): ----10/02/13 02:34:50---- I used to drink when I was young. I would wake-up and think about my shameful behavior and be stoic, I guess. Recently, I've been fighting hard to break-out of my prison. Ten years? Insanity. God is perfectly just. Sadly, it's not like I've suffered, exactly. When you get out of control and call people "niggers", that can't be good. God talks. I'm not exactly believed. Everybody is cruel and give no clue what they make of me. God is perfectly just. The countless generations before me? It appears that I get my own little principality of which I sometimes seem supreme.

TempleOSV207 12y ago
What do you say to government issued random numbers? Yer nigger brain shuts-down in denial. God is perfectly just, self evident looking at the World.
morbius 12y ago
I always die a little inside reading this guy's stuff because it's so easy to see how brilliant he is, and how much schizophrenia is affecting his talent. The worst part is that even he wants to "break out of [his] prison," and it's heartbreaking to see when somebody can't. I've been following Davis' work for around 5 years now. What he has been able to write, and the proficiency with which he writes it, has in my opinion surpassed all the programmers whose Ruby/Haskell/Clojure dreck always appears on the HN frontpage.
- toyg 12y ago
  Do you know what he does for a living? Ticketmaster is mentioned here and there but always in the past, it seems. He'd be an incredible system hacker, if managed appropriately... but it's the sort of bet only great souls could make.
  - morbius 12y ago
    Well, no. I'm not that close. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a job; one of his pages mentioned he only lives on disability.
  - howdoipython 12y ago
    He does nothing for a living, and it has been that way for a while.

by pubby 12y ago

TempleOSV207 12y ago

What do you say to government issued random numbers? Yer nigger brain shuts-down in denial. God is perfectly just, self evident looking at the World.

morbius 12y ago

I always die a little inside reading this guy's stuff because it's so easy to see how brilliant he is, and how much schizophrenia is affecting his talent. The worst part is that even he wants to "break out of [his] prison," and it's heartbreaking to see when somebody can't. I've been following Davis' work for around 5 years now. What he has been able to write, and the proficiency with which he writes it, has in my opinion surpassed all the programmers whose Ruby/Haskell/Clojure dreck always appears on the HN frontpage.

toyg 12y ago
Do you know what he does for a living? Ticketmaster is mentioned here and there but always in the past, it seems. He'd be an incredible system hacker, if managed appropriately... but it's the sort of bet only great souls could make.
- morbius 12y ago
  Well, no. I'm not that close. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a job; one of his pages mentioned he only lives on disability.
- howdoipython 12y ago
  He does nothing for a living, and it has been that way for a while.