I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows.

Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.

I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

Just because you can't see the air, doesn't mean you stop breathing. And just because you can't see God, doesn't mean you stop believing

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.

Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

I believe in myself, especially with how hard I've worked. I'm one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I've proven myself.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.

Christ wasn't teaching people to hate Jews. He was a Jew himself. He wasn't teaching people to hate anybody who didn't believe as he did.

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.

There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to believe in your own ideal; think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

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