Nonprogrammers Quotes & Sayings

My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can. — Ben Mendelsohn

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty. — John Lubbock

Kunst combined the names of two older disciplines, musicology (created in 1885) and ethnology (often dated to 1783). Musicology is the study of music. Ethnology is the comparative study of human linguistic and cultural diversity based on direct contact with, and ethnographic accounts of, particular groups of people. Ethnomusicology, by extension, was to be — Timothy Rice

All you really need to do is focus on building quality relationships instead of trying to be a social butterfly at every social gathering. — S.J. Scott

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. — Kingsley Amis

I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore. — Vanessa Hudgens

I wonder how many of us stretch our faces with smiles wide enough to mask the pain we hide. I wonder how many of us go through the motions - attending church, giving service, nurturing our families, learning and doing - while inside we feel empty, broken, doubtful, and even guilty for the way we feel! — Toni Sorenson

In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.' — Katharine Graham

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably. — Celia Green

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler — Margaret Mitchell

Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger. — Charles Stross

Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again. — Joel Spolsky