Kent Beck Quotes

When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.

Kent Beck

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• When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Storm
  • News
  • Complexity

• When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

  

  T-Pain
  • Song
  • Say
  • Finish

• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • You
  • Famous
  • Theory

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• I don't want to be a Major League coach.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Want
  • Coach
  • Major

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• No man may make another free.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • May
  • Man
  • Free

• I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Live
  • Best

• That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Way
  • Path
  • Reach

• When you're rich you don't write checks.

  

  Randy Moss
  • You
  • Write
  • Rich

• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Strong

• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Love
  • Marriage

• It was an ideological war for some-the defenders of democracy versus the rebel strong-arm charismatic leaders. Or the capitalist land-grabbers versus the protectors of the people, take your pick.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • People
  • War
  • Strong

• Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Truth
  • Darkness
  • Diamonds

• Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Great
  • Music
  • Heart

• I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Music