Wietse Venema Quotes
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified...
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I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
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And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.
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Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
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I'm painfully shy.
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Of course most Americans don't know how A.I.G. brought the world's financial system to near-ruin or what credit-default swaps are. They may not even know what A.I.G. stands for. But Americans do make the connection between their fears about their own jobs and their broad understanding of the A.I.G. debacle.
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You can find the intangibles of being a quarterback in almost every profession in the world. There's nothing like it.
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However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
