Daniel J. Bernstein Quotes
'Of course, the test difficulty depends on what you're doing, and on how you're doing it. I'm constantly asking 'How much would I have to screw this up to write an incorrect function that passes these simple tests?' Occasionally the answer is 'Not much,' so I'll throw the code away and start over. It was probably perfect code, but that's not good enough.' 1
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.
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I would hate to be a bitter, aging actor.
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How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.
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everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.
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I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?
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'Of course, the test difficulty depends on what you're doing, and on how you're doing it. I'm constantly asking 'How much would I have to screw this up to write an incorrect function that passes these simple tests?' Occasionally the answer is 'Not much,' so I'll throw the code away and start over. It was probably perfect code, but that's not good enough.' 1
