Quotes About Development

I love constructive criticism.

I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.

It's funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

Create an environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. Surround yourself with caring and positive people who support you, and reflect who you want to be.

All due respect to Romeo and Juliet, but I don't think love is sacrifice at all. Real love is when you let another person make you better. You don't lose yourself in love—you find yourself there.

the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious celebration!

we learn from failure, not from success

Aprendemos de los fracasos; no de los éxitos.

Disintegration--I'm taking it in stride.

Spiritual] Practices are not for know-it-alls. Practices are for those who feel the need for change, growth, development, learning. Practices are for disciples.

helping human nature and society mature in their moral and spiritual development, evolving in the direction of nonviolence and love before it's too late.

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

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.

Debugging tip: For server applications, be sure to always specify the -server JVM command line switch when invoking the JVM, even for development and testing. The server JVM performs more optimization than the client JVM, such as hoisting variables out of a loop that are not modified in the loop; code that might appear to work in the development environment (client JVM) can break in the deployment environment (server JVM).

When used properly, threads can reduce development and maintenance costs and improve the performance of complex applications.

Life could leave the ocean when it learned to grow a skin, a bag in which to take the water with it.

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice. —REBEC OF GINAZ

Superstitions and nonsense from the past should not prevent us from making progress. If we hold ourselves back, we admit that our fears are more powerful than our abilities.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown. —SISTER JESSICA, private journal entry

Machines are fully functional from the day of their programming." Erasmus sounded smug. "That explains a lot. For us, life is a gradual developmental process. Without nurturing, we can't survive," she said. "You have never been nurtured. I think you should make improvements to the way you raise the slave children in your pens. Show them more kindness, encourage their curiosity.

There is a certain hubris to science, a belief that the more we develop technology and the more we learn, the better our lives will be.

Do you really expect to become more than a machine?" Taking no offense, Erasmus replied, "It is a human trait to better oneself, is it not? That is all I am trying to do.

Those who do not actively pursue progress and innovation soon find themselves at the tail end of history.