"I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits."

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Source : Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.74, Pearson Education

Kent Beck

“If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.”

Source : John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”
“There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war against women, a war that not only continues to this moment without the slightest abatement but intensifies hourly.”

Source : Sonia Johnson (1991). “The ship that sailed into the living room: sex and intimacy reconsidered”
“Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ...it's a condition of the heart.”
“You are a sick freak who should be beaten.”
“An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.”
“We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.”
“I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control...My hotel check-in name used to be Mr BL Zebub.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2007.
“The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.”

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