Jolyon Skinner Quotes & Sayings

most prototypes are built to answer questions such as, "Can we build it?" or "Will it work as expected?" instead of focusing on questions such as "Should we build it at all?" or "If we build it, will people buy it and use it? — Alberto Savoia

After finals and winter break ... after I'm back to full strength, we'll go get Preston. Whether Mom and Abby and Joe and Townsend like it or not, we'll go get him. And then ... ' I trailed off. 'And then we'll finish this. Next semester, this thing ends. — Ally Carter

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue. — Henri Poincare

Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that. — John C. Calhoun

To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars and the memory of his misspent youth. — Hallie Erminie Rives

But on the other hand, there is no doubt that honeybees are a non-native species. It also seems to me common sense that flowers can produce only so much nectar, and that there can therefore be only so many bees in a particular habitat. Something has to give, and that thing is likely to be the local flower-visiting insects. — Dave Goulson

The most important lesson I have ever learned is that I haven't learned anything. — Michel Templet

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid. — Desmond Tutu

We have a lot of great creators in Square Enix, but for larger-scale development we will be doing more distributed and outsourced development to reach our targets on time. — Motomu Toriyama

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say. — Charles Stanley

Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in. — Frederick Lenz

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. — Linus Pauling

There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and outright bugs in abstractions or their implementation. — Guido Van Rossum

We should make virtue our master, not our servant. — Josh Billings

I'd do a podcast about guys wearing shorts when it's too cold. — David Letterman