David Parnas Quotes
Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.
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I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
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Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?
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I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
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Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.
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Well,- said her daddy,- your careless heedlessness has almost lost me my life. I am now going to give you a spanking. And he did and so dinner was a snuffling red-eyed meal filled with cold looks and long silences and the cheese souffle, which was delicious.
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
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I'm not a fatalist, but I don't like to be dependent on something or someone. I can only depend on my president or my wife.
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Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.
