"The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole"

-- Eric S. Raymond

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes

“I'd love to tell you that something is going to change tomorrow. But the reality is that it won't.”
“When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result.”
“'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees.”
“When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.”
“Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.”
“Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile....”
“It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.”
“I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.”

Source : "Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's". BBC Cult Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. December 10, 2003.

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