"If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you donâ€™t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, Iâ€™m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine."

-- Joel Spolsky

#Character Quotes #Onions Quotes #Submarines Quotes

“Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis for developing reforms, Richard Willson remedies the problem that many planners feel unqualified to challenge and change long-standing minimum parking requirements.”
“I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.”
“The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.”
“I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, What the Hell was that. As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Allen Covert Gets Lost in the Strange Wilderness!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 12, 2007.
“Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.”
“At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.”
“Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!”
“In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.”

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