Best 238 quotes in «execution quotes» category

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.

If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, "If you're going to hang me, you mustn't expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution.

If you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

I'm not interested until I see their execution.

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

'Luck' is recognizing when the situation encourages build out and execution.

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.

No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated.

One clear focus for everyone. Your business needs laser focus on what the next objective is. Execution is key.

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.