#icing

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#easy #efficient #elegant #keys #noticing

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#field #find #how #keep #learning

The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#approach #benefit #group #just #needs

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#direction #favour #follow #history #noticing

We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#been #before #developed #first #further

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins ↗

— Margaret Cousins

#voicing-it #change

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. ↗

— Will Harvey

#dead #just #practice #practicing #retiring

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time. ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#america #being #enticing #family #go

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#been #better #get #i #injuries

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#book #different #fix #get #look