#currency

It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later. ↗

— Brian Goetz

#java #programming #design

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#kindness #money #money

Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads is a bit tired we ends up earning the money faster'n we can make it, which leads to a bit of what I can only call a conundrum—" "You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it?" said Moist, still pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it. "That's right, sir," said Shady. "And down that road madness lies." "It's a very short road," said Moist, nodding. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#currency #government #money #overtime #money

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Hindu, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth and it is the currency of heaven. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#commercialization #currency #earth #exchange #gold

But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#continues #currency #euro #exist #global

China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#contribution #currency #development #economic #economic development

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. ↗

— John Updike

#currency #elder #i #i am #i see

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#disordered #evils #greatest #political

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#been #comforts #currency #high #history

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#currency #else #only #share #someone