Avoidably Quotes

#1. It's hard enough to track many simultaneous changes, let alone join in with them! However, we must embrace the fact that code changes: any code that stands still is a liability. No code is beyond modification. Treating a section of code as avoidably scary is counterproductive.

Anonymous

#2. I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.

Sherwood Anderson

#3. I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.

George Burns

#4. Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

J.R. Moehringer

#5. The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.

David D. Burns

#6. Take others with you, then," I say.
"Jagen isn't your best friend, either."
"No, but I am," Toraf says, swimming up
to us.

Anna Banks

#7. Man, Grandma, what big hair you have."
"The better to style with, my dear.

Neal Shusterman

#8. A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

Leo Tolstoy