Developers normally describe the task they want to accomplish using a programming language. However, the CPU cannot understand source code written in a normal programming language. First, the source code has to be translated into machine code, which is the language the CPU speaks. This translation is done by special programs called compilers. A compiler creates a file, often called an executable, with machine-level instructions that the CPU can understand and execute.
"Love is the falcon's flight over your sands. Because for him, you are a green field, from which he always returns with game. He knows your rocks, your dunes, and your mountains, and you are generous to him."
“you’re the only boy i’ve ever thought about. my whole life, it’s always been you. you taught me how to dance, you came out and got me the time i swam out too far. do you remember that? you stayed with me and you pushed me back to shore, and the whole time, you kept saying, ‘we’re almost there,’ and i believed it. i believed it because you were the one who was saying it, and i believed everything you ever said.
compared to you, everyone else is saltines, even cam. and i hate saltines. you know that. you know everything about me, even this, which is that i really love you.”
“It is very strange,” she said, intent upon her own reflections, “but I do not feel a bit ashamed to you of what I have done. I do not even feel afraid to tell you all about it, although of some of that I must certainly be ashamed. Why is it?”
“Because I am blind?”
“Oh no,” she replied very positively.
Carrados smiled at her decision but he did not seek to explain that when he could no longer see the faces of men the power was gradually given to him of looking into their hearts, to which some in their turn—strong, free spirits—instinctively responded.
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination - devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues - which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.
“I just … I couldn’t handle hearing about how someone’s Higher Power never gives them anything they can’t handle. If that was the case, we wouldn’t have rape or child abuse or incest or domestic violence, and people wouldn’t develop PTSD or complex trauma or crippling drug dependencies, all of which are the direct results of being given exactly what you can’t handle.”