"I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries"

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

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“The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.”
“If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.”

Source : "John Hawkes: 'I play nerds, psychos ... psycho-nerds'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”

Source : FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Oct 29, 2013
“I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.”
“I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.”
“White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.”
“When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly by where we are right now in this moment in our history.”

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