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Jamie's Collected Quotes
"The art of debugging is figuring out what you really told your program to do rather than what you thought you told it to do." - Andrew Singer
If you have a bug - you have done something wrong - don't get mad at machine, it is not its fault (though sometimes it is).
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"If you can't explain something in simple terms, you don't understand the problem." - Richard Feynman
On how to solve complex problems. First, understand the problem. Explain it out loud to someone.
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"Your thoughts and ideas are worthy. Write them down. Edit them. Pursue them with the vigor they deserve." - Jamie Miller
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"You are living the life you longed for. If you do not like it, long for something else." - Jamie Miller
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"Don't be so quick to defend your creations. Growth and understanding only comes to an open mind." - Jamie Miller
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"Allow yourself to change and adjust thoughts you might have had previously." - Jamie Miller
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"There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away. They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets. They scream your name at night in the street. Your graduation gown lies at rags at their feet." - Bruce Springsteen
From Bruce Springsteen song, 'Thunder Road.' The whole song could really be quoted, it is one of the best written songs of all time.
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"If you do the easy things all the time, life is hard. If you do the hard things, life is easy." - Jim Kwik
Develop your 'grit' muscle by doing the hard things. With a strong 'grit' muscle, life opens up and becomes easier.
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"Schedule time to daydream. Creativity comes when the mind is idle." - Jamie Miller
All we do is work work work work to get ahead, but it is important sometimes to actually schedule time to think. So think, dream, brainstorm, then get back to work!
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"This place reminds me of Santa's Workshop. Except everyone smells like mushrooms and looks like they want to hurt me." - Elf
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"Her students were by and large good Midwesterners, spacey with estrogen from large quantities of meat and cheese." - Lorrie Moore
From her book 'Like Life' and the story 'You're Ugly Too'
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"She was almost pretty, but her face showed the strain and ambition of always having been close but not quite." - Lorrie Moore
From her book 'Like Life' and the story 'You're Ugly Too'
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