29 Quotes by James Robertson

These people have gone through so much, ... They need to rest, and they need to recuperate.

Smalltalk has type, but you can add message signatures of any sort to any object. Making something generic, to a very large extent, just means cloning the API.

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life,

This is my first time through this, and I didn't want to stop playing. The win means a lot, because we keep playing.