"Preferences are bad solutions to performance problems."

-- Havoc Pennington

#Problem Quotes #Preference Quotes #Performances Quotes

“So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity”
“Lose this battle so we can win the war.”
“It gives us a lot of versatility and flexibility. Looking ahead, we've got a lot of good young players coming through the system. As they make their way, we'll have some tough decisions down the road. I'm just glad to have this one bat in our lineup that can drive in 100 runs, hit 25 to 30 home runs at least, and in our ballpark, maybe more.”
“There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.”

Source : Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision.”

Source : Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.44, Macmillan
“We have to be more modest in what we claim.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.”

Source : Television interview, 1987.

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