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.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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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.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
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When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
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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.
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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.
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Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
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We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
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There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
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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.
