Btselem Wiki Quotes & Sayings

Implement "is a" through public inheritance. When a programmer decides to create a new class by inheriting from an existing class, that programmer is saying that the new class "is a" more specialized version of the older class. The base class sets expectations about how the derived class will operate and imposes constraints on how the derived class can operate (Meyers 1998). — Steve McConnell

With wisdom comes responsibility. Somewhere along the way, I misplaced both. — I.E. Castellano

She'd given it two good years. The problem was, Don had only given it one. — Cindy Gerard

How wonderful it would be if everything could always be as clear and simple as it used to be when you were twelve years old, or twenty years old. If there really were only two colors in the world: black and white. But even the most honest and ingenuous cop, raised on the resounding ideal of the stars and stripes, has to understand sooner or later that there's more than just Darkness and Light out on the streets. There are understandings, concessions, agreements. Informers, traps, provocations. Sooner or later the time comes when you have to betray your own side, plant bags of heroin in pockets, and beat people on the kidneys - carefully, so there are no marks. — Sergei Lukyanenko

Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people. — William H. Ginsburg