Bertrand Meyer Quotes
There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.
Quotes to Explore
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.
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If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
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I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.
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There are a lot of things we're doing wrong or we wouldn't be under .500. It's not like we're doing one or two things wrong.
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If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
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There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.
