Nonprogrammers Quotes

#1. Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.

Joel Spolsky

#2. You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

Bill Gates

#3. When he thought he was doing something that made a difference to people, he could bear any burden [Moses]. When he lost that sense of achievement, he became too discouraged to keep on doing the hard things.

Harold S. Kushner

#4. I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

Tamara Ecclestone

#5. Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

Lawrence Fagg

#6. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it's meant to.

Allison Winn Scotch

#7. That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Carl Perkins

#8. Don't know if Boston was real or lucid dream. When they chanted Diesel, it sure as hell felt real for ME! You make decisions in life, sometimes never getting proof that it was the right decision. The crowd in Boston on Sunday night assured me that I MADE THE RIGHT DECISION.

Kevin Nash

#9. The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

Gayle King

#10. I wanted to tell her secrets I hadn't even told myself yet.

Molly Beth Griffin

#11. I'm not going to drown in what I can't change.

Jessica Park

#12. Don't ever let a guy make you feel ugly because no matter what you are beautiful with or without him-Zayn Malik

Zayn Malik

#13. You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.

Christian Coma

#14. People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

Richard Saul Wurman

#15. You're giving me lung cancer.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

Camille Paglia