Pumilias Quotes & Sayings

QUESTION: Who governs the governors?
ANSWER: Entropy. — Frank Herbert

The problem with traditional approaches to abstraction and encapsulation is that they aim at complete information hiding. This characteristic anticipates being able to eliminate programming from parts of the software development process, those parts contained within module boundaries. As we've seen, though, the need to program is never eliminated because customization, modification, and maintenance are always required-that is, piecemeal growth. — Richard P. Gabriel

So, then, why is performance-based living a problem, and why do so many of us need to recover from it? Because the term performance-based living indicates that performance has become our primary measure of worth, value, or acceptance. Performance-based Christians attempt to relate to God based on performance and self-justification. Such behavior is not only nonsense, it is deadly! It is deadly because it is impossible. Therefore, either our God will justify us, or we will never be justified! But now we know that it is his determined purpose and will to be our Justifier. — Jeff Harkin

I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge. — Joan Rivers

Men are different; sheep are all alike. — Raheel Farooq

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend. — Eric S. Raymond

I don't. I take it he was homeless." Aaron shrugged. "That's my guess. A group of them have been congregating in that grassy patch across the street from the Santa Teresa Inn. Before that, they camped in the park adjacent to the municipal swimming pool." "Who called it in?" He took off his glasses and polished — Sue Grafton

She wasn't sure exactly, but she'd known it absolutely: there was more to life, and it was waiting for her. — Kate Morton

When you got no wheels you're no place in L. A. — Danny Santiago

I got off the abutment and walked towards my office. — Abraham Zapruder

The only time I've seen any rebellion was in the fifties, sixties and early seventies. The rest of it you can keep. — Lemmy Kilmister

There is a ... position that considers the moral complications of pollution not in terms of doing harm, but in terms of trespassing ["Poisoning the Well," High Country News, January 19, 2015]. — Benjamin Hale

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations. — Michael Tilson Thomas