Featurism Quotes & Sayings

You must set your hands to tasks which you can finish or at least hope to finish, and avoid those which get bigger as you proceed and do not cease where you had intended. — Seneca.

My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Body-con dresses have never been something I've been into. — Karen Walker

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring. — Ambrose Philips

when one becomes successful, send th eelevator back down for some one else — Ramsey Lewis

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies. — C.S. Lewis

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine. — Donald A. Norman

The same sins that tempted past generations remain perennial temptations today. — Anonymous

Possessions weren't the thing. The car your drove and the house you lived in and the clothes you wore...were nothing but vocabulary. They weren't the true communication that mattered, they weren't the connections that were important. — J.R. Ward

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can't really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach. — Ally Carter

You look like the vamp who bled the cat. — Kim Harrison

This is the city that taught me how to write all of these cool songs. Yeah, you guys definitely need a royalty. — Katy Perry