Category: Quotations
-
Compliment
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.Eleanor Hamilton
-
Compassion
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
-
In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming Pragmatism
I weep when I think about the text processing written in C under my managerial watch because the programmer didn’t know Perl. Considering that there are much better scripting tools for much of what gets programmed in Java and C++, perhaps the question should be whether Java and C++ scale to enterprise projects.Ronald P. Loui,…
-
Keep rowing
As one goes through life one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.Katharine Hepburn
-
Delegation
There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.Will Rogers