#clever

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing. ↗

— Les Baxter

#clever #conquered #i #spanish #thing

There is no bore like a clever bore. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#clever #like

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#amiable #being #care #clever #either

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. ↗

— John Carmack

#because #clever #competent #extremely #graphics

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. ↗

— Brian Celio

#except #i #i write #my own #obviously

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#clever #doing #enjoy #fun #i

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#devil #education #make #man #more