#principle

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#bring #claim #design #felt #follows

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#facts #may #principles #proceed #recede

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline. ↗

— John McCain

#abraham lincoln #am #believe #discipline #fiscal

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.' ↗

— John McCain

#adhere #bipartisan #concessions #did #done

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles. ↗

— William McKinley

#differences #our #policies #principles

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#america #becoming #country #gap #last

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#did #ever #except #foolish #nobody

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #destroy #fearlessness #human #human race

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#began #best #compose #ever #gave

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#almost #any #discussion #fundamentalist #i