Quotes About Value

Don't ever put your life on the line for something you don't believe in.

Las ideas son el "papel moneda" de la mente y son convertibles, y se tornan en dinero

qué le servirá al hombre ganar todo el mundo, si perdiere su alma?" (Mt. 16:26). En

But, while bidirectional associations between ENTITIES may be hard to maintain, bidirectional associations between two VALUE OBJECTS just make no sense. Without identity, it is meaningless to say that an object points back to the same VALUE OBJECT that points to it. The most you could say is that it points to an object that is equal to the one pointing to it, but you would have to enforce that invariant somewhere.

When a significant process or transformation in the domain is not a natural responsibility of an ENTITY or VALUE OBJECT, add an operation to the model as a standalone interface declared as a SERVICE. Define the interface in terms of the language of the model and make sure the operation name is part of the UBIQUITOUS LAN- GUAGE. Make the SERVICE stateless.

If the design, or some central part of it, does not map to the domain model, that model is of little value, and the correctness of the software is suspect.

Only the soul matters, in the end. All else is dross. That is as true of an empire as it is of a man.

A reputation, once developed, is as valuable as a fine sword. But don't forget that it has to be a valid reputation. Or the sword's go no edge.

Math is not a constructor, or even a function. It's an object. As you know, Math is a built-in object that you can use to do things like get the value of pi (with Math.PI) or generate a random number (with Math.random). Think of Math as just like an object literal that has a bunch of useful properties and methods in it, built-in for you to use whenever you write JavaScript code. It just happens to have a capital first letter to let you know that it's built-in to JavaScript.

When you delete a property, you're not just deleting the value of the property, you're deleting the property itself. And, if you try to use fido.dogYears after deleting it, it will evaluate to undefined.

An expression is anything that evaluates to a value. 3+4

Now, when we have an environment that has a value for each of the free variables, we say that we've closed the function. And, when we take the function and the environment together, we say we have a closure.

When you pass a primitive value it is copied into the parameter. We call this "passing by value." So if you change the value of the parameter in your function body it has no affect on our original argument's value. The exception to this is passing an array or object, and we'll get to that in a bit.

When you call an object's method, this is set to the object whose method was called. If the method is not found in that object, and is found in the prototype, that doesn't change the value of this. this always refers to the original object — that is, the object whose method was called — even if the method is in the prototype. So

Friends are always worth the moments of joy you share, even if they don't last.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Trials are a part of life, but there is value in sometimes experiencing adversity which will test (and so strengthen) our faith and also build an understanding of God and ourselves.

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

warns about the dangers of treating art and creativity as commodities. A commodity mindset deadens human bonds of trust and affection.

Except under dire circumstances or as a day job to support creative endeavors, a smart person is not so likely to want to wait tables, file forms, work on an assembly line, or sell shoes. It isn't that he disparages these lines of work as beneath his dignity; rather, it is that he can see clearly how his days would be experienced as meaningless if he had to spend his time not thinking.

The primary challenge that smart people must deal with is making sense of meaning. Natural psychology suggests that the best answer to this problem is donning the mantle of meaning-maker and engaging in value-based meaning-making. No smart person is immune to this problem. In fact, it is the most significant emotional issue for our smartest 15 percent.

Wisdom is skill in living; it is living one's life so that something of lasting value is produced.

He could appreciate the value in something, even if he ultimately rejected that something—and could see the errors and flaws in something, even if he ultimately accepted that something.

One study calculated that people spend 3,680 hours in their lifetime looking for lost items, which works out to 150 twenty-four-hour days.