Miguel de Icaza Quotes

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

Miguel de Icaza

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• Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Been
  • Nobody
  • Through

• Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Body
  • Model
  • Walking

• I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Time
  • House

• It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Management
  • Treat

• They call me Fearless Felix.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Me
  • Fearless
  • Call

• I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Try
  • Go

• I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Space

• My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Hope
  • Daughter
  • Idea

• I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Care
  • Now And Then

• I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Chaos
  • Well
  • Dishwasher

• And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Musicians
  • Harder
  • Hide

• Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Believe
  • Health

• I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Together

• When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Career
  • Being Pregnant

• The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Very

• Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • High
  • Sports

• I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

  

  James Daly
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Strong

• People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Time
  • Desire

• It likes it when you don’t depend on it. It will reward you every time you don’t act needy. It will chase you if you act like other things (passion, friendship, family, longevity) are more important to you. If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Life
  • Software
  • Teens

• The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Heaven

• The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

  

  Miguel de Icaza
  • Writing
  • Software
  • Patents