Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric S. Raymond

Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

Eric S. Raymond

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

Eric Schmidt

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

Eric Schmidt

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Emily Carr

The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.

Emily Bronte

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.

Emily Giffin

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

Emily Dickinson

Remorse is memory awake.

Emily Dickinson

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Emeril Lagasse

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

Henrik Ibsen

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

Henri Nouwen

Forgiveness indeed heals memories

Henri Nouwen

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .

Henri Nouwen

When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a remembered love, a love which is not simply a recollection of a bygone past but a living force which sustains us in the present. Through memory, love transcends the limits of time and offers hope at any moment of our lives.

Heinrich Boll

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind. Take a word such as bread, or war; take a word such as chair, or bed or Heaven. Behind every word is a whole world. I'm afraid that most people use words as something to throw away without sensing the burden that lies in a word.

Hedy Lamarr

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Heidi Julavits

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

Heidi Julavits

I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.

Heidi Julavits

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.

Hjalmar Schacht

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties

Herta Muller

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,

Heston Blumenthal

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

Hideo Kojima

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

Hilary Mantel

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

Hilary Mantel

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

Hilaire Belloc

Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.

Henry Ward Beecher

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Henry Fielding

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.