#trick

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

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#cry #hasn #human #human being #laughs

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#camera #really #should #stricken #though

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. ↗

— Vernon Law

#learn #learning #never #people #some

Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#any #debate #doing #head #i

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#another #desires #find #men #moment

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion. ↗

— William H. Macy

#believer #character #collusion #firm #firm believer

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.' ↗

— Bill Maher

#big #bush #case #destroy #i

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#anatomy #because #direct #dirty #experience