For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.
Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.
You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified.
Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.
Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.
Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.
This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.
We speak for all citizens of the Commonwealth when we say that society can draw great hope for the future because of the example which these young people are giving by their creative and constructive responses to the challenges which confront our communities and dedication to help those most in need.
I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.