John Carmack Quotes
'A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.'
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
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'A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.'
