Boris Beizer Quotes

Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.

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• I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Think
  • Moment

• When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

  

  Victor Borge
  • She
  • Star
  • Appearance

• Home is most important in the long run.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Important
  • Long
  • Home

• I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Think
  • Making
  • Speeches

• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Hand
  • Husband
  • Helping

• For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Bad
  • Two
  • Juice

• How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Red
  • Blue

• When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Life
  • Time
  • Black

• The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Focus
  • Moving
  • Decision

• Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Think
  • Speak

• The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

  

  Bono U2
  • Children
  • Priority
  • Entrepreneurs

• I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • People
  • Earth
  • Learn

• I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

  

  Ray Stevens
  • Business
  • Wanted

• The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Law
  • Recognize
  • Criminal

• I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • People
  • Intimidated

• Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.

  

  Boris Beizer
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