Ben Oakland famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

  • The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure — and so often, people are unsure — is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.

  • It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

  • Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be a shrug. For us, crazy happens. Better to sit back, enjoy the show, and drink the tea

  • I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

  • Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

  • This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

  • After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either

  • Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

  • C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.