Kent Beck Quotes

When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.

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• We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Conservation
  • Partnerships

• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • May
  • Remember

• Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Real
  • Feeling

• Adele's look is meticulously thought through and completely of her own traits. She has such a powerful beauty, such an emotional voice, and the kohl, the hair, everything feels organically molded to her personality.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • She
  • Powerful
  • Hair

• I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Try
  • Personal

• When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Actress

• I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Job
  • College

• I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Art
  • Girl

• I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Great
  • Day
  • Film

• I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Home
  • Age
  • Doing

• If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • History
  • Rome
  • Italy

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Eye
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Kind
  • Challenge
  • Person

• The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Born
  • Young
  • Old

• My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Son
  • Emotional
  • Thought

• But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• I'm a big Letterman fan.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Fans
  • Bigs
  • Letterman

• When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.

  

  Martin Villeneuve

• I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up.

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • People
  • Jennie Gerhardt
  • Alice Quinn

• Harlem was an exciting place in the '50s. There were nightclubs that, as a student of Columbia, you dashed off to. The community seemed very viable still.

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • Community

• I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a time of national crisis, economic collapse and calamity, ecological peril and social dislocation, the American people deserve to be a partner to the American government.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.

  

  Kent Beck