Quotes About Refinement

Oamenii iau de-a gata ceea ce de fapt este o art?. Arta de a tr?i bine, de a tr?i confortabil dup? standardele personale, cere o anumit? maturitate a spiritului, un caracter excep?ional, un gust cu adev?rat rafinat ?i…

rewriting is where good papers emerge.

If you're happy slamming some code together that more or less works and you're happy never looking at the result again, TDD is not for you. TDD rests on a charmingly naïve geekoid assumption that if you write better code, you'll be more successful. TDD helps you to pay attention to the right issues at the right time so you can make your designs cleaner, you can refine your designs as you learn.

The XP philosophy is to start where you are now and move towards the ideal. From where you are now, could you improve a little bit?

Pair programmers: Keep each other on task. Brainstorm refinements to the system. Clarify ideas. Take initiative when their partner is stuck, thus lowering frustration. Hold each other accountable to the team's practices. Pairing

Beautiful code is short and concise, so if you were to give that code to another programmer they would say, "oh, that's well written code." It's much like as if you were writing a poem.

Stop focusing on these little details," it told me. "Focus instead on becoming better.

Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.

we value improvement of our daily work more than daily work itself.

It was never enough for him merely to establish a result; he had to do it with elegance and grace.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Only the curve of her nostril and the curve of her mouth hinted, with a Jewish strength, a possible Jewish refinement.

take. Her designs would be more refined than Vera's, because she did not intend to satisfy popular taste and create a brand, but to create for pleasure. The possibility of earning a living never occurred to her. She wasn't interested in scarves for ten dollars, or sheets

decidió que era en los detalles donde estaba la diferencia entre un caballero y un patán

There is such a thing as too much couth.

The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

Most of the model consolidation we've done is behind us. There will be some fine tuning.

It takes sometimes years in the market to get the tuning to the right place where your game is as compelling at level 100 as it was at level 10.

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.