Linus Torvalds Quotes
People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do.Linus Torvalds
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
Olivia Holt -
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
Patrick Stewart -
I have been acting since I was thirteen.
Caleb Landry Jones -
You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
Samantha Fox
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
Damian Lewis -
No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie -
It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
Ram Charan -
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams -
What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
Vaclav Klaus -
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
Dan Byrd
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
Kapil Sibal -
The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
Haley Reinhart -
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
Eddie Redmayne -
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts -
Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
Hamza Yusuf -
The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
Vikram Seth
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I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
Claire Tomalin -
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce -
There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".
Burt Reynolds -
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Florence Nightingale -
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
Georges Cuvier -
People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do.
Linus Torvalds