Elf Gingerbread Houses Quotes & Sayings

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex. — Steve McConnell

O hope, most futile of futilities!
Thine iron summons comes again,
O inevadible Pain! — Francis Thompson

Sometimes, so much of the difficulty is the question of 'What am I going to write about?' because the world is so vast. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Knowledge of physical laws can, in some cases, give you the confidence to confront surly people. A few years ago I was having a hot-cocoa nightcap at a dessert shop in Pasadena, California. I had ordered it with whipped cream, of course. When it arrived at the table, I saw no trace of the stuff. After I told the waiter that my cocoa was plain, he asserted I couldn't see the whipped cream because it sank to the bottom. Since whipped cream has a very low density and floats on all liquids that humans consume, I offered the waiter two possible explanations: either somebody forgot to add the whipped cream to my hot cocoa or the universal laws of physics were different in his restaurant. Unconvinced, he brought over a dollop of whipped cream to test for himself. After bobbing once or twice in my cup, the whipped cream sat up straight and afloat. What better proof do you need of the universality of physical laws? — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I have no trouble selling out - I'm a benevolent hack, in a certain way - but I want to pander for something I believe in. — Harold Ramis