Straitlaced Quilt Quotes & Sayings

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code. — Tony Hoare

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa. — Richard Powers

Remember my experiments with the RTG and having a hot bath? Same principle, but I came up with an improvement: submerge the RTG. No heat will be wasted that way. I started with a large rigid sample container (or "plastic box" to people who don't work at NASA). I ran a tube through the open top and down the inside wall. Then I coiled it in the bottom to make a spiral. I glued it in place like that and sealed the end. Using my smallest drill bit, I put dozens of little holes in the coil. The idea is for the freezing return air from the regulator to pass through the water as a bunch of little bubbles. The increased surface area will get the heat into the air better. Then I got a medium flexible sample container ("Ziploc bag") and tried to seal the RTG in it. But the RTG has an irregular shape, and I couldn't get all the air out of the bag. I can't allow any air in there. — Andy Weir

I don't think you lose anything by hallucinating. It's cheaper than airfare, the destinations more interesting, and I'd rather have a mutant squid on my window than the State Department trying to do foreign affairs. — Fred Reed

For what but eye and ear silence the mind
With the minute particulars of mankind? — William Butler Yeats

Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects of my appearance, conduct, and situation, and said, 'Finally.'
'There's been a lot on my mind,' I replied.
'It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten,' Queen Mab replied. 'Improve your mind.' — Jim Butcher

I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse. — Tracee Ellis Ross

Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion. — Thomas A Kempis

The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit. — Timothy Ferriss

Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt. — Jack Nicklaus

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies! — Julianne Moore

Being in Hawaii, it's almost impossible not to be fit, I think. — Henry Ian Cusick

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. — Antonio Porchia

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private. — Graham Swift

What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience. — Marianne Williamson