The Expedition Approximation Quotes & Sayings

Legacy code. The phrase strikes disgust in the hearts of programmers. It conjures images of slogging through a murky swamp of tangled undergrowth with leaches beneath and stinging flies above. It conjures odors of murk, slime, stagnancy, and offal. Although our first joy of programming may have been intense, the misery of dealing with legacy code is often sufficient to extinguish that flame. — Michael C. Feathers

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself. — David Rakoff

God knows what He's doing, — Jeannette Walls

Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep. — John Dobbin

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist. — Upamanyu Chatterjee

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half. — William E. Geist

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

In the secular trinity of Irish-American values, loyalty and humor are father and son. Self-deprecation is the spirit that works in mysterious ways ... — Maureen Dezell

If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school. — Werner Herzog