"Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
William S. Burroughs
"Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings."
Walt Disney
"It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company."
George Washington
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill
"The first quality that is needed is audacity."
Winston Churchill
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
Steve Jobs
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
Robert X. Cringely
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are–by definition–not smart enough to debug it."
Brian Kernigan
"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."
Edsger W. Dijkstra
"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."
Bruce Lee
"It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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