“He had spent a lot of time thinking about himself, and had come to the conclusion that he was definitely not self-absorbed.”
―
Scott Meyer,
Off to Be the Wizard
“I find that stubbornness often beats intelligence eventually. Stubbornness will beat anything eventually. That’s the whole point of stubbornness.” ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
“Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.” ― Jess C. Scott
“Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.” ― Scott Meyer, Help Is on the Way: A Collection of Basic Instructions
“You know, the less you talk, the more people assume that what you’re not saying is important.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“You see, faith doesn’t have to make sense. If it did, it wouldn’t be faith, it would be logic.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“For a smart person to argue with a dumb person, they have to dumb down their logic on the fly, while the dumb person thinks in dumb logic naturally, giving them an advantage.” ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
“All of the worst books I ever read were published,” ― Scott Meyer, An Unwelcome Quest
“It’s amazing how quickly we get used to weirdness when it’s our own weirdness.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“One voice at the back said something about her weighing the same as a duck, but nobody was in the mood.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“He tried to come up with a word that meant “witch,” that didn’t have any insulting or demeaning overtones. He couldn’t. In fact, after some thought, he couldn’t think of a word that meant female that men hadn’t imbued with some belittling shade of meaning. Finally, after a much longer silence than he had intended, he simply said, “I can understand why.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“They couldn’t prove themselves right, so they channeled their energies into proving the other side wrong.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“The advantage that religion has over magic or science is that man’s inability to understand is built into the system, so if an explanation is confusing or unsatisfying, it strengthens the point.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“(If you’re not at all interested in performance, shouldn’t you be in the Python room down the hall?)” ― Scott Meyers, Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14
“If I use it, and you know what it means, it a word.” ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
“Everything’s senseless until someone makes sense of it. Life doesn’t explain itself.” ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
“Saying you were going to be something isn’t the same as being that thing.” ― Scott Meyer, An Unwelcome Quest
“Martin said, “A mixed metaphor is like a beautiful woman.” “How so?” “They can both make a guy look stupid.” ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
“The guard was clearly puzzled and was trying to solve the puzzle by the time-honored method of frowning about it.” ― Scott Meyer, An Unwelcome Quest
“I find that stubbornness often beats intelligence eventually. Stubbornness will beat anything eventually. That’s the whole point of stubbornness.” ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
“Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.” ― Jess C. Scott
“Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.” ― Scott Meyer, Help Is on the Way: A Collection of Basic Instructions
“You know, the less you talk, the more people assume that what you’re not saying is important.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“You see, faith doesn’t have to make sense. If it did, it wouldn’t be faith, it would be logic.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“For a smart person to argue with a dumb person, they have to dumb down their logic on the fly, while the dumb person thinks in dumb logic naturally, giving them an advantage.” ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
“All of the worst books I ever read were published,” ― Scott Meyer, An Unwelcome Quest
“It’s amazing how quickly we get used to weirdness when it’s our own weirdness.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“One voice at the back said something about her weighing the same as a duck, but nobody was in the mood.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“He tried to come up with a word that meant “witch,” that didn’t have any insulting or demeaning overtones. He couldn’t. In fact, after some thought, he couldn’t think of a word that meant female that men hadn’t imbued with some belittling shade of meaning. Finally, after a much longer silence than he had intended, he simply said, “I can understand why.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“They couldn’t prove themselves right, so they channeled their energies into proving the other side wrong.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“The advantage that religion has over magic or science is that man’s inability to understand is built into the system, so if an explanation is confusing or unsatisfying, it strengthens the point.” ― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard
“(If you’re not at all interested in performance, shouldn’t you be in the Python room down the hall?)” ― Scott Meyers, Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14
“If I use it, and you know what it means, it a word.” ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
“Everything’s senseless until someone makes sense of it. Life doesn’t explain itself.” ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
“Saying you were going to be something isn’t the same as being that thing.” ― Scott Meyer, An Unwelcome Quest
“Martin said, “A mixed metaphor is like a beautiful woman.” “How so?” “They can both make a guy look stupid.” ― Scott Meyer, Spell or High Water
“The guard was clearly puzzled and was trying to solve the puzzle by the time-honored method of frowning about it.” ― Scott Meyer, An Unwelcome Quest
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