Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Quotes

#1. So far, the results confirm the folklore: Programmers seem to be a bit more productive after they've done the estimate themselves, compared to cases in which the manager did it without even consulting them. When the two did the estimating together, the results tended to fall in between.

Tom DeMarco

#2. I felt like I could never get enough of you even if I melted into you like snow on wet grass.

Marvel Comics

#3. I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.

Raymond E. Feist

#4. We all feel that we are something other than a being which someone once created out of nothing: from this arises the confidence that, while death may be able to end our life, it cannot end our existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

Epicurus

#6. Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.

Frederick Lenz

#7. The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character.

Gabriel Mann

#8. We live by promises not by explanations.

Adrian Rogers

#9. Logically, harmony must come from the heart ... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Dalai Lama

#10. Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

Jeff Miller

#11. Intelligence is ten million rules.

Douglas Lenat