Quotes


Programming Quotations

Until I find some time to write another post, I’d thought I’d pick out some of my favorite “Programming Quotations.”

It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; it’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.–Steve McConnell
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the [...]

Crying Uncle

Quote from: In the Meantime: The Practice of Proactive Waiting by Rob Brendle.
Over the past several years, I have come to believe that the sincerely meant and dramatically expressed petitions of my early adulthood were entirely off the mark. In fact, it’s clear to me now that my pleas for God to use me [...]

Deep Thoughts

Because I’ve got nothing to blog right now (couple of longer posts on the way), here are some Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling school, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.
When you’re riding in a time machine way far into the future, [...]

Quote of the Day

“We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.”
-Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset

Quote of the Day

Saw this quote on Jenn Weber’s MySpace (Hi Jenn!)
Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large, it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame.
–A.W. Tozer

Geek Quotes

Haha, check these out: Geek Quotes, Sayings and Phrases
There are some really dumb ones, but there are some that are deep and others that are really funny.
Here are some of my faves:
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and [...]

Quote of the Day

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully aound hobbies and little luxuries; and all entanglements; lock [...]

AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 MOVIE QUOTES

AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 MOVIE QUOTES were released last night in a three hour television special. I watched maybe 5 minutes of it, but here are the top 10 quotes:

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” Clark Gable, “Gone With The Wind”
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse,” Marlon Brando, “The [...]

Defending Christianity

In a recent radio interview, I was sternly asked by the host, who did not consider himself a Christian, to defend Christianity. I told him that I couldn’t do it, and moreover, that I didn’t want to defend the term. He asked me if I was a Christian, and I told him yes. [...]

The New Church

A friend of mine, a young pastor who recently started a church, talks to me from time to time about the new face of church in America - about the postmodern church. He says the new church will be different from the old one, that we will be relebant to culture and the human [...]