Bertrand Meyer Quotes
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.
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The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.
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I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.
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I have no particular inspiration, but I do find Anushka Sharma, Deepika Padukone and Kangana Ranaut amazing.
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That's my mission: to make you feel something.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
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I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.
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We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.
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I define myself.
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I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'
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In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
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Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
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You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.
