The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them.

It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds.

I had written about a small hamlet upstate, and had been called into a meeting about my story, which, as it turned out, had upset a lot of people.