Jessica Livingston Quotes

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

I'm a true professional. I don't play no acting games, and I take pride in my work and being a professional.

Whatever I do, whether it's cooking shows, books or events, the details count and that's what sets me apart from other food TV personalities. If you take out the details what's left?

I'm going to do the best job I can for the company that hired me and give the fans the best show they can and try to keep a strong continuity in the presentation. What other people do, I am not concerned or whatsoever.

The struggle is to sustain the quality. When I look at my work and the kind of responses I'm blessed with, I feel I need to do so much more.

My philosophy has always been to do the job I do to the very best of my ability and to be myself within it.

For me, doing good work is important.

Neil and I share a desire for great quality in our work. If we are offered projects, look at projects, or consider projects that don't have that quality, then we don't do them.

I give my best to each role that I do.

I work really hard and I take great pride in what I do.

My whole goal is just to be professional every day.

I cannot be casual about my work.

It's important not only to have the right timing of when the hardware is going to be released but also when we are going to be able to introduce quality software.

I am consciously selective of the work that I do.

I'm the ultimate professional.

I'm going to show up and do my job to the best of my abilities every day, every week.

One of the biggest guys I worked with was Sean Connery. People like Sean, Michael Caine, Denzel Washington, they've been going for a long time, and not for nothing. They want to get this job right, and they realise the weight of responsibility on their shoulders.

I try to be professional and do my best, and that's it.

I will give my best to the job always.

If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he’s a menace

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.