Steve McConnell Quotes
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Quotes to Explore
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. “Ladies? After you.” “Rude,” Claire said. “I was being polite!” “Not when you have a flamethrower.
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But what will happen -- and I have seen this in previous catastrophes and hurricanes -- there is a bright spot in that new jobs do get created.
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I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus
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The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
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If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right.
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Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.
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Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
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Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?
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Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).
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It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.
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You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.
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Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.
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I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?
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If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.
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I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
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Of course, you can never really know if someone is fully revealing himself to you or not, so all we can go by is our own gut feelings.
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It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
