Kent Beck Quotes

I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.

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• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Dog
  • Fight
  • Size

• I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Win
  • My Life

• I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Life
  • World
  • Process

• There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Home
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Parents

• Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time was in a Nielsen number that would arrive sometime after the show had been broadcast. And now, people are just completely engaged on so many levels, and I think that you have to find a way as a show creator to follow your own compass.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Me
  • Child
  • Moment

• I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Money
  • Working
  • Group

• In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Star

• The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Today
  • Enemy
  • Plan

• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Success

• Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • You
  • Car

• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

  

  E. B. White
  • Words
  • Die
  • Dying

• The less our sons our trusted, the less women are able to really love them, and the more women feel entitled to use them as wallets.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith

• I have had a son killed, a son-in-law die during the last battle of Nashville, another son has thrown himself away, a second son-in-law is in no better condition, I think I have had sorrow enough without having my bank account examined by a Committee of Congress.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Law
  • Die
  • Son

• Every record I have done was because I was a person's friend. The only time we did not continue to be friends was if the record did not become a hit. If it did, we became great friends.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Helping

• I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Life
  • Dark

• I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Think
  • Personal
  • Illness

• A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet - such a great memory.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Great
  • Night
  • Birthday

• I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.

  

  Kent Beck