#soft

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. ↗

— Bill Gates

#consistent #helps #improve #industry #maintaining

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#banjo #been #down #early #far

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#growing #grown #happy #his #honest

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#excuse #generally #gives #got #gratuitous

I praise loudly. I blame softly. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#i #loudly #praise #softly

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#business #companies #defend #doors #down

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#beyond #competition #engaging #fair #go

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#i #install #keep #like #many

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#challenge #even #interesting #makes #more

Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#asian #being #getting #i #laughing