Centerstone Quotes & Sayings

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Accessing shared, mutable data requires using synchronization; one way to avoid this requirement is to not share. If data is only accessed from a single thread, no synchronization is needed. This technique, thread confinement, is one of the simplest ways to achieve thread safety. When an object is confined to a thread, such usage is automatically thread-safe even if the confined object itself is not. — Brian Goetz

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain. — Francis Bacon

We shall change all that ... because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what has to be changed. — Alexander McCall Smith

I'm representing the United States. And I'm representing the United States, and my office is representing the United States day after day in front of the court. And I think it's the right thing to do, to carry that out with some dignity and some respect for the process and respect for the institution. And so that led me to just, you know, move the dial a little bit in the direction of calmness. — Donald Verrilli Jr.