Kov Rova Kobyla Quotes & Sayings

When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive). — Richard E. Pattis

To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from beautiful, giving persons; to give back, indeed to give away; to be thankful, as we are so often told we must be, for small mercies. — Arun Shourie

I just love seeing other females work. — Gia Coppola

It doesn't matter whether you're a senior or not, if something needs saying to a colleague it will be said. — Rio Ferdinand

Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire. — Jim McDonough

I had the feeling, when the thoughts first clarified on paper, that my experience was very different from other people's. (Are we all under this illusion?) — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Oxford, where the real and the unreal jostle in the streets; where North Parade is in the south and South Parade is in the north, where Paradise is lost under a pumping station; where the river mists have a solvent and vivifying effect on the stone of the ancient buildings, so that the gargoyles of Magdalen College climb down at night and fight with those from Wykeham, or fish under the bridges, or simply change their expressions overnight; Oxford, where windows open into other worlds ...
Oscar Baedecker, The Coasts of Bohemia — Philip Pullman

I still believe I have a lot of liberal thoughts, but I also believe when you work hard, you shouldn't be penalized and pay more because you work hard. — Kid Rock

You are wonderful sacred-soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Leonard Bernstein

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning. — Amy Grant

. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn
to be erased, for one final atonement
finite and forgetting and whole - but time in its preserving
will not permit forgetting; destroying
only when we can no longer beg
or argue with time
to preserve the brief benisons
a few moments longer than our sins — John Daniel Thieme

Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand. — Rosamunde Pilcher