Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Gosling

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

Niklaus Wirth

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.

Niklaus Wirth

Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

Steve McConnell

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

Steve McConnell

Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Willie Garson

Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.

Tullian Tchividjian

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

Tullian Tchividjian

There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.

Wayne Dyer

You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection.

Jonathan Swift

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Richard Bach

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.