"Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program."

-- Fred Brooks

#Thinking Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Requirements Quotes

“If you do something and it saves your life, it was good taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's pretty.”
“Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.”
“You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.”
“Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world's stage and hopefully do the United States proud.”
“Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This being-nice crap was for thebirds.”
“What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'”
“I think that Billie (Jean King) and Zina (Garrison), they have a whole lot of experience. Even if I don't quite agree with something or have a different way of doing it this week, whatever they said, I did it right away and I found out that it was correct. I think that's helped a lot...I'm having fun. I had a lot of fun out there. Sometimes I was ready to smile -- but I knew I'd lose focus -- because I was doing things that I'd done in practice and we talked about. I was ready to laugh and give someone a high-five, but it wasn't time for that.”

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