Alistair Cockburn Quotes
I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.
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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.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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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.
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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.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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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.
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I just don't stop working.
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I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.
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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.
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He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
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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?
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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.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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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.
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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While I don't in any way question your honor, your patriotism or your service to our country, I do question some of the decisions, the judgments you’ve made over the past two and a half years. During that time things have gotten markedly and progressively worse.
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I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.
