“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.” IfsThinkingMenGivingYearsTwoUseShowsSeemsUsedNamesRaceKnownPiecesParticularDeserveTreatsOriginalsJewCriminalsTricksInsultMaskContemptAssociatesMeannessCrawlingVagabondsSubterfuge Book:The Jews Source: The Jews
“I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.” MindInspirationTogetherPiecesTricksTheme Author:Narciso Rodriguez
“There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.” PeopleWayShouldYearsWisdomDesirePoliticsEnjoyEconomyPiecesHonestTenIntellectualYears AgoTwentiesChinaTricksCompareLiberalismGoodsCapabilityCrookedAffluenceThis SocietyAffluentGoods And Services Author:Louis O. Kelso
“The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.” I CanSportsPiecesHip HopRapTricksHipsHopsBetter Than YouDjsGraffiti Author:Ice T
“Sometimes I just listen to classical pieces of music to take me away from my work. That's what I kind of do to wash away the notes that I've been working on all day. As human beings we need to sleep so that's kind of one of my little tricks.” NeedsHumansKindLittlesSometimesHuman BeingsSleepPiecesNotesTricksTake MeJust ListenTake Me Away Author:Aaron Zigman
“I set up a system for myself where I work on a lot of pieces at once. I'll switch between them and keep working on a piece until it comes together, and then I'll publish it. This way some pieces can take a year if they need to. The trick is to just make sure one is ready every week.” IfsWayNeedsYearsTogetherPiecesWeekReadyTricksPublish Author:Paul Madonna
“The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.” MovingBlackBreakKnowingPiecesProgramTreatsBoxesTricksBlack Boxes Author:Bill Gates
“Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.” FormTermPiecesWrittenObjectsApproachTricksProgrammingSoftwareComponentsRewriting Author:Bill Gates