Extraction Stories Quotes & Sayings

Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation, object-oriented or otherwise. — Ward Cunningham

When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner self ... Prisoners in the world of object, they have no choice but to submit to the demands of matter! They are pressed down and crushed by external forces: fashion, the market, events, public opinion. Never in a whole lifetime do they recover their right mind! ... What a pity! — Zhuangzi

In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character. — Mahatma Gandhi

The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment. — Mohammed Morsi

A movement only exists when people are inspired to move,
to do something, to make the cause their own. — Simon Sinek

My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didn't meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasn't in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations. — Vandana Shiva

Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky. — Linda Howard

Eyes of gentianellas azure,
Staring, winking at the skies. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thought as such ... is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity. — Theodor W. Adorno

Love isn't supposed to be selfish. — Ellen Hopkins

I like to take care of myself and know what foods I should be eating. — Doutzen Kroes