Quotes About Features

These are deep issues, and we are yet very far from explanations. I would argue that no clear answers will come forward unless the interrelating features of all these worlds are seen to come into play. No one of these issues will be resolved in isolation from the others. I have referred to three worlds and the mysteries that relate them one to another. No doubt there are not really three worlds but one, the true nature of which we do not even glimpse at present.

During planning, especially short-term planning, it's tempting to set up "stretch goals" or to "encourage" the team to do "just one more feature." Please do not do this. It's devastatingly destructive. The reason is that the team will in fact try. Eager to please, they'll unconsciously hurry. They'll leave out just a few tests. They'll leave the code not quite as clean as they might have, just to squeeze in one more feature.

The habits of Franciscan nuns still shrouded all but their faces, and so each of the new nun's features were emphasized, read forty times over in astonishment. Outlined in a stiff white frame of starched linen, Sister's eyes, nose, and mouth leapt out, a mask from a dream, a great raw-boned jackal's muzzle.

Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world.

I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with Night Shift and Splash.

In the evening we are taken to see Rain. I discover Joan Crawford. I think you told me you loved her. So do I. Her face haunts me. The dream-like exaggeration of features, the big mouth, the mouth. The story is ridiculous. The French are jeering. Absolutely jeering and there is almost a scene. The Americans are weeping. Joan Crawford as slut and as angel . . . magnificent.

Most people assume that maintenance begins when an application is released, that maintenance means fixing bugs and enhancing features. We think these people are wrong.

Computer languages influence how you think about a problem, and how you think about communicating. Every language comes with a list of features: buzzwords such as static versus dynamic typing, early versus late binding, functional versus OO, inheritance models, mixins, macros

Normal people believe that, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

but we no more choose our passions than our features or complexion.

His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His

Both men looked cadaverous and sinister as the single dim light hanging from the ceiling cast dark shadows across their features.

Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

Second, the intellect abstracts from even the common sensible features of things and considers only their quantitative features. Mathematics is the field of inquiry corresponding to this degree of abstraction.

The beauty parlours only enhance to beautify the face beauty of beautiful beauties, not their body or character; conversely, unpretty ones stay the same as their original features even after makeup.

I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.

and yet the courage that could risk betrayal and the bravery which was ready to encounter death, if need be, in pursuit of freedom, were essential features in the undertaking.

What we can see of DNA is like a portrait of someone familiar, from which some vandal has cut out the features that make the face instantly recognisable.

Petite features should always be paired with thinner, softer brows - they don't overpower your face.

You want to do a few things really well because you want to come out with a product that is fully baked, even though it may be lacking in a few features or whatever, rather than the one that's all-achieving but not doing anything too well.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

It's amazing to consider that no matter what size customer we were pitching, or where in the world we were selling, a singular idea drove all our accomplishments: we never sold features. We sold the model and we sold the customer's success.

perhaps an inch or two taller than Monk, and extremely handsome. His face was lean and narrow, but with fine, dark eyes, a long nose and a chiseled mouth. Apart from his features, there was a quickness of intelligence in him, lines of wit and laughter around his mouth and a hint of temper between his brows. It was the face of a proud man of unusual charm and, Monk guessed, a considerable ability to command others.