Dave Parnas Quotes

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Comedy
  • Pain
  • Film

• I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Find
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Hope
  • Dogs
  • Tongue

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Made
  • Natural

• I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Bike
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Always
  • Leave

• I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Important
  • Failure
  • New

• The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Free

• May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • May
  • Today
  • Violence

• When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.

  

  Diego Della Valle
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • May

• As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

  

  Dave Parnas
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