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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There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
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Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence. Technology-wise, it's things like ease of use, user interfaces; all of these things that tend to be less important in our other business segments are important things for us in the consumer market.
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One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.
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I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time.
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When I get back with band, the lights, and the whole production, that's me with the full artillery. A quick radio performance keeps me sharp for the big show.
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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.
