Niero Quotes & Sayings

War is the business of barbarians. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn

Any statements from the parents may seem like criticism or judgment by the child or adolescent. It's very important that the child or adolescent does most of the talking and the parent asks questions curiously to understand the perspective of the child or adolescent. — Timothy Carey

I look most like myself ... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses. — Junot Diaz

Where I grew up, women's liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs. — John Rachel

I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that. — Paul Wolfowitz

Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go. — Brandon Stanton

There is no place for fear, Ailith," Niero said, easily reading it in our faces. "Guard against it. The presence of fear denies the power of the Maker and invites the enemy to use it for his own purposes. And where the Maker sends us, we are to go in complete trust. We have been called." He put out his hand, using the leading phrase our trainer had always used. We all placed our hands atop his. "And we shall answer," we said as one. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch. — Guido Van Rossum