Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

Atul Gawande

Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.

Alfred P. Sloan

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ...

Cynthia Ozick

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Clifford Stoll

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Vandana Shiva

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

Dave Grohl

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

David Whyte

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

Markus Persson

Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'

Regina Rogers

It gets boring a lot of times. When I'm in the game, it's not as boring.

Bob Johnson

It had to have been one of the most boring games in the world.

George Carlin

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws (at most an occasional visit to the cemetery)

Jon Phillips

I could sit around all day picking stocks I know would return 10% to 15% per year, but that's boring and not very profitable. Finding undervalued or 'forgotten' companies is what makes investing fun.

Mitch Corwin

Grocery stores have historically been fairly boring and not a fun place to shop, but now Whole Foods turned that image on its side.

M. J. Rose

If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

Ruth Reichl

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

Marcus Martial

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Cass Sunstein

Rehnquist really was treated unfairly, ... A person is a career, not a moment.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

John Timoney

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

Marc Bulger

We treated this like a regular-season game. Whether they did or not, who knows?

John Macdonald

We treated this (bar) just like any other licensee.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Scott Andreassi

She was treated no differently than any other individual.

Phil Fontaine

We can't be treated as secondary. We can't be an after-thought,

Gwendoline Christie

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.