Scott Meyers Quotations

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Obviously, we're rising because of the situation in Nigeria , but it also looks like the coldest period of the year is coming up. We're looking at a 10-day spell of cold weather starting Saturday.

Metals are definitely looking like a good hedge -- a place where people are parking money against this inflationary pressure that we've seen from the (energy market).

You can have a 19-year-old kid handling the refueling of a B-2, ... That's a billion-dollar asset.

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User generated content is already an important part of our site, so I think now extending that interaction to video is a great opportunity.

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The whole complex is strong. Platinum, gold, silver were all moving today. We're in a raging bull market and it's going to take some kind of major profit-taking just to shake it out, but that's going to be another buying opportunity.

There's been a lot of fund and local trader selling here after we hit $69 ... there's major profit-taking from the big funds and locals.

As we get closer to the mid- to late-fourth quarter and even the first quarter, we'll start to see how much rebuilding we need. The next big move is going to be up, and it is going to be related to the hurricane.

The computer told us to climb and we climbed right over them,

The concern is that there is a steady drip-drip about this, and it will become part of the common knowledge about cookware even though people won't get PFOA from cookware.

The market is in free-fall. This is certainly not a technical picture. The Nasdaq is falling apart and you don't know where the bottom will be.

Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.

Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens.

A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference.

... the results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces.