"Life is too long to be good at C++ â€“ if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture."

-- Erik Naggum

#Long Quotes #Cost Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”
“Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.”

Source : "Without Further Ado, Sarah Palin Returns". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2009.
“Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either.”
“Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing”
“We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.”
“Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.”

Source : Lee Roberson (2000). “The Faith That Moves Mountains”, p.40, Sword of the Lord Publishers
“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns â€¦it is safe to predict thatâ€¦ such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”
“The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.”

Source : Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

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