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

• Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.

  

  Nicolas Maduro
  • People
  • History
  • Action

• The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Nature
  • Face
  • Features

• The hinge is distinctly different, so when you look at it carefully, you recognize that it is its own unique design.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Design
  • Unique
  • Recognize

• 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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