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.
Boris Beizer
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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.
Pablo Picasso
When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
Artie Lange
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
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
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
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
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
John Locke
Nazareth
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.
Oswald Chambers
Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.
Confucius
But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don't always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don't always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.
Binnie Kirshenbaum
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
