Goetz Quotes

#1. We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention ... We can only love on this earth and against God.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#2. You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything.

Bernhard Goetz

#3. Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

Larry Goetz

#4. If you like affection, then about one in three squirrels makes an excellent companion.

Bernhard Goetz

#5. Locking can guarantee both visibility and atomicity; volatile variables can only guarantee visibility.

Brian Goetz

#6. People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.

Larry Goetz

#7. It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

Jim Goetz

#8. Sometimes abstraction and encapsulation are at odds with performance - although not nearly as often as many developers believe - but it is always a good practice first to make your code right, and then make it fast.

Brian Goetz

#9. It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.

Larry Goetz

#10. In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when you're out.

Larry Goetz

#11. Too much of the good life ends up being toxic, deforming us spiritually.

David Goetz

#12. When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.

Bernhard Goetz

#13. If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

Jim Goetz

#14. I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

Bernhard Goetz

#15. It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later.

Brian Goetz

#16. Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

Bernhard Goetz

#17. A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.

Curt Goetz

#18. You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

Bernhard Goetz

#19. All of WhatsApp's growth has come from happy customers encouraging their friends to try the service.

Jim Goetz

#20. I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian. In fact, I think if the United States and one other major power becomes basically vegetarian, the whole world will become vegetarian, eventually.

Bernhard Goetz

#21. At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.

Jim Goetz

#22. India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.

Bernhard Goetz

#23. To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

Bernhard Goetz

#24. With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

Bernhard Goetz

#25. If you have love in your life, you have life.

Bernhard Goetz

#26. Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.

Curt Goetz

#27. Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

Jim Goetz

#28. Society is better off without certain people.

Bernhard Goetz

#29. Whenever more than one thread accesses a given state variable, and one of them might write to it, they all must coordinate their access to it using synchronization.

Brian Goetz

#30. Just as it is a good practice to make all fields private unless they need greater visibility, it is a good practice to make all fields final unless they need to be mutable.

Brian Goetz

#31. I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.

Bernhard Goetz

#32. I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence.

Bernhard Goetz

#33. I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

Bernhard Goetz

#34. During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

Bernhard Goetz

#35. I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

Bernhard Goetz

#36. I spend about half my time in mobile and half my time on enterprise.

Jim Goetz

#37. We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.

Jim Goetz

#38. The whole trial seemed surreal.

Bernhard Goetz

#39. Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

Bernhard Goetz

#40. I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels.

Bernhard Goetz

#41. WhatsApp only wanted to focus on how current users were engaging with the product. Like how they did not use advertising and kept the experience uncluttered.

Jim Goetz

#42. When I'm right, no one remembers.When I am wrong, no one forgets.

Larry Goetz

#43. I am looking for unknowns who are passionate and mission-based. But I don't try to tout the next great thing I want to get in front of, because I don't set that course. The entrepreneurs do that.

Jim Goetz

#44. Once an object escapes, you have to assume that another class or thread may, maliciously or carelessly, misuse it. This is a compelling reason to use encapsulation: it makes it practical to analyze programs for correctness and harder to violate design constraints accidentally.

Brian Goetz

#45. The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

Curt Goetz

#46. Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

Bernhard Goetz