Hard Quotes - page 33

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash. (Karl Marx)
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all. View quote
Larry Wall
Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. View quote
Larry Wall
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. View quote
Larry Wall
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. View quote
Larry Wall
A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy. View quote
Larry Wall
It's hard to tune heavily tuned code. View quote
Larry Wall
The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation. View quote
Fred Brooks
You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don't work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work. View quote
John Backus
Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4.0] or not ... you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first. (Eric Schmidt)
I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python. View quote
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard. View quote
Rasmus Lerdorf
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. View quote
Immanuel Kant
People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher - a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them. View quote
Isaac Newton
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws. View quote
Albert Einstein
Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair. View quote
Edward Abbey
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness. (Paul Goodman)
It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it. View quote
Paul Goodman
In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial. View quote
Paul Goodman
Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years! View quote
Tony Blair
It is sometimes hard even for biologists to remember that sex is merely a genetic joint venture. View quote
Matt Ridley