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Quotes About Reuse

Standards make it easier to reuse ideas and components, recruit people with relevant experience, encapsulate good ideas, and wire components together. However, the process of creating standards can sometimes take too long for industry to wait, and some standards lose touch with the real needs of the adopters they are intended to serve.
~ Robert C. Martin
three principles of component cohesion: • REP: The Reuse/Release Equivalence Principle • CCP: The Common Closure Principle • CRP: The Common Reuse Principle
~ Robert C. Martin
The Reuse/Release Equivalence Principle (REP) is a principle that seems obvious, at least in hindsight. People who want to reuse software components cannot, and will not, do so unless those components are tracked through a release process and are given release numbers.
~ Robert C. Martin
A merda de um cara é o adubo de outro.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
One guy's crap is another guy's fertilizer
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts
~ Aldo Leopold
Programmers become so familiar with code reuse that they often copy existing techniques even when they aren't actually copying code.
~ Alan Cooper
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
We want to teach families how to cook Tuscan wherever you are. How to reuse your leftovers. How to trick the kids into eating whatever you want by putting it into a frittata.
~ Debi Mazar
Treating water to reuse or recycle water does not necessarily mean it's going to be drinkable.
~ Douglas P Fish
The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.
~ Daryl Hannah
Shopping second hand has always just made me feel good.
~ Miquita Oliver
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
~ Nellie McKay
I'm that woman who would reuse all the plastic bottles that come home, wear the same clothes time and again, because why not?
~ Rupali Ganguly
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
If it's easy to reuse, people will. Create an environment that supports reuse.
~ Andrew Hunt
I'm usually able to reuse at least 50 percent of the clients' furniture. Most times, I'll just clean it up, make it look like new, and that's the best way to save money.
~ Jonathan Scott
You can go to any second-hand store and get an amazing piece - I have pieces from flea markets at home. You don't need to buy throwaway furniture.
~ Marcel Wanders
I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.
~ Adrian Grenier
I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?' We should be saying, 'Neither one.' We should have our own cloth bags.
~ Woody Harrelson
Nothing should be carelessly thrown away, not even wine from sinful places. There was no such thing as garbage, trash, or dirt, only matter that hadn't been put to a proper use.
~ Margaret Atwood
By now, Tally understood that nothing in the Smoke ever lost its value. Nothing was discarded or given away just because it was old or broken.
~ Scott Westerfeld
My mother once made a quilt from dozens of pairs of second- and third- and fourth- hand blue jeans that she bought us at Goodwill, the Salvation Army, Value Village, and garage sales. My late sister studied my mother's denim quilt and said, 'That's a lot of pants. There's been a lot of ass in those pants. This is a blanket of asses.
~ Sherman Alexie
Togi-Jiru (water drained from washing rice) The cloudy water that results from washing rice is called togi-jiru, and it can be used later the same day to cook corn on the cob; fresh peas and beans; or root vegetables such as daikon, lotus root, and burdock root. The vegetables will taste sweeter because their natural sugars are enhanced by the starchy water. The water is also used in the garden, especially for watering flowering plants such as geraniums.
~ Elizabeth Andoh