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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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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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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My mum always removed her make-up at night and taught me early on about the importance of taking care of your skin, especially when you're travelling or extremely busy, because it's so easily affected by your surroundings and health.
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Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.
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I'm a huge Top 40 lover.
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It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.
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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.
