Alistair Cockburn Quotes

I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.

Alistair Cockburn

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sweet
  • Worst
  • Sweets

• It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Know
  • Travel
  • Author

• There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Country
  • Children
  • American

• I just don't stop working.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Stop
  • Working
  • Just

• I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Wish
  • Christian
  • I Wish

• My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Done

• As for the apostolic epistles, what person who is skilled in literary interpretation would think them to be plain and easily understood, when even in them there are thousands of passages that provide, as it through a window, a narrow opening leading to multitudes of the deepest thoughts?

  

  Origen
  • Thoughts

• I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think 'Hey you, get off the floor!' was my name.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Time
  • Long

• cite

  

  Alex Rodriguez

• I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• The main thing is just really to play my game... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.

  

  Mary Pierce
  • Game

• It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Wise

• The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.

  

  David Farr
  • Heart
  • Fun

• As homeowners see the value of their homes decline, they become more likely to delay purchases of the big items - like automobiles, electronics and home appliances - that are ballasts of the American economy. When those purchases decline, large manufacturing firms, suddenly short on funds, could begin laying off employees.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Home
  • American
  • Value

• I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Up
  • House
  • Survival

• I'm a New Zealand actor, and I really want to be doing our stuff here, and our stuff includes plays from overseas. In terms of survival, maybe I should have taken a shot elsewhere at some point, but it gets back to the same theme - we should have our own people telling our own stories.

  

  Peter Hambleton
  • People
  • Taken
  • Survival

• Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Diversity
  • Survival

• They would like to thank the community, their friends and other family that came in and lent so much warmth love and compassion.

  

  Kenny Johnson
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Community

• I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.

  

  Alistair Cockburn
  • Survival
  • Project
  • Hazard