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 respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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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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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
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I am a rank individualist.
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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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What I can't fit into my suitcase is probably something I don't need.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
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Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
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Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
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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.
