"Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products"

-- Niklaus Wirth

#Perfection Quotes #People Quotes #Quality Quotes

“All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession.”
“God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.”

Source : Commenting on Gen. 3:9; why should an omniscient God ask "Where are you?",
“Think of the undying glory that hangs around the ancient name of Africa and forget not that you are native-born American citizens, and as such, you are justly entitled to all the rights that are granted to the freest.”

Source : Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.48, Gale Cengage Learning
“Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.”
“Fear's contagious, but so is courage.”
“RAW is very forgiving. I was photographing a farm woman in Ecuador cooking over a small fire and my fill flash didn't go off a few times. I was about to delete the RAW files but decided to play with the curves first because I like the composition. It turned out that the image, although underexposed by two stops, was better than the fill-flashed images because the fire was the only source of illumination and it looked more real.”
“There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”
“Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.”

Source : FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from May 09, 2014

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