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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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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I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.
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Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.
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I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.
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Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications.
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One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.
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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.
