"The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction."

-- Eric S. Raymond

#Design Quotes #Heavyweights Quotes #Fleeing Quotes

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”
“Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.”
“Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.”
“Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully.”
“Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.”
“In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.”
“The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.”
“Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?”

Source : Song: American Pie, Album: American Pie

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