Quotes from Books

Good programmers know what to write. Great programmers know what to rewrite and reuse.

The single most important thing you can do to improve your Java programs is to read this book.

The architecture of software is like the architecture of buildings: it needs to be designed to support the functionality and performance required.

Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares.

The only way to go fast is to go well.

Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares.

The only way to go fast, is to go well.

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

The market is a living thing and it has a life of its own.

Your trading results are a reflection of your beliefs, attitudes, and emotions.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Marketing is about meeting the needs of customers and creating satisfaction.

I have spent my life, so much of it, in the pursuit of a vision.

What I fear is complacency, that we will take things for granted.

The future belongs to the young, and I hope they will continue to aspire and to build.

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

In Paris, you can be a different person every day.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Courage is grace under pressure.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

The sea is a cruel mistress.

So it goes.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different.

There is no reason why a story should not be told in the way that it is told.

Geisha are not simply entertainers. They are artists, and their art is their life.

In my own way, I had to be as clever as the men who sought to control me.

The truth is that I was never meant to be a geisha; I was meant to be a girl who loved.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

The things you own end up owning you.

This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

It was not a story to pass on.

Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay.

The best thing is to be loved.

It is a lonely thing to be a child.

The function of racism is distraction.

What you’re supposed to do is ignore it, but you can’t.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Quality is not just a concept; it is a process.

History began when humans started to ask questions.

Homo sapiens are not naturally inclined to be cooperative.

The most powerful ideas in history are not ideas themselves, but the stories we tell ourselves.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

I can no longer be silent. I have been thinking of you for a long time.

Love is not affectionate feeling, it is a warm heart.

It is not what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

I am a writer, I am a storyteller.

The bloody chamber was a place of secrets and darkness.

Fairy tales are a way of understanding the dark side of our nature.

You have to trust me. Trust is a big part of a relationship.

I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.

Love is not a possession. It’s a journey.

You’re my one and only.