quotes about Humanistic

“I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.”

“The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.”

Source : "A Managerial View of the Multics System Development". Talk at the Conference on Research Directions in Software Technology, Providence, Rhode Island, www.multicians.org. October 1977.

“It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.”

“Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.”

“Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.”

“I am about as relaxed a guy as it gets. I like sitting on my couch, watching shows, sitting by the fire pit. I like to play golf, but I don't have a chance to play it often. Playstation. Xbox, but I'm about as boring a guy as you'll ever meet. I could sit on this couch from the time the day starts to the time the day ends.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

“Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.”

“Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.”

“It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.”

“The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.”

Source : "1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion". Book by Caroline Coon, 1977.