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

• 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

• In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Education
  • Segregation
  • Liberated

• I just find that I enjoy the music that feels like there's a journey to the top of this mountain, then you're at the top of the mountain finally with this magical feeling, and you're stoked because you made it, and you're up there, but there's a little bit of sadness to think of all that you lost along the way to get there. I guess I relate and enjoy the path and the struggle very much. Maybe it's the competitive spirit in me.

  

  Aaron Richard Bruno Awolnation
  • Thinking
  • Struggle
  • Feelings

• I jerk off 'til I bust blood.

  

  Cam'ron
  • Jerk
  • Masturbation

• People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• 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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