#works

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#computer #i #i am #intended #interest

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#belong #citizens #control #efficiently #government

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#business #create #created #find #gets

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real. ↗

— Colin Firth

#almost #because #choices #comedy #errors

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#carried #culture #dirt #drive #extreme

But the shortest works are always the best. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#best #shortest #works

Let Catholics build their own churches and works. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#catholics #churches #own #their #works

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.' ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#every #how #i #know #monday

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#engineer #father #governments #his #life

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beware #finds #hard #himself #learn