Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.
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I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.
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While you need to be able to stand up for yourself, you also need to recognize that other people have their own agendas. Trauma can make all that hazy and grey.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
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You should have fun when you're acting. That's when magic happens.
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An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
