David Heinemeier Hansson Quotes
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.David Heinemeier Hansson
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
Barbara Walters -
In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Katha Pollitt -
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
Maajid Nawaz -
L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
Rajneesh -
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
Walter Isaacson
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
Gary Bettman -
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde -
My breakup with AT&T is final, and I'm done with Skype as the rebound guy.
Elayne Boosler -
After a few weeks, Frank did not appear to want Martha there, but she stayed. When Frank stopped speaking to her, it made no difference and they lived that way for twenty years.
Olga Masters -
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Euripides -
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
William Godwin -
Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides -
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
Nat Friedman -
'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
Manny Farber -
Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
Barton Gellman -
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.
David Heinemeier Hansson