Bill Bruford Quotes

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

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• Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.

  

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• I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

  

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• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  

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• Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

  

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• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

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• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

  

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• One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

  

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• I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

  

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• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  

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• Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

  

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• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?

  

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• Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

  

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• Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

  

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• A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

  

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• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

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• I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

  

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• 'How can you read such a beautiful book and turn your back on it?''Never said it wasn’t a beautiful book. I just don’t believe there’s some man up there in the black who gets off on watching us pound our head on the pavement six times a day.

  

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• Exponential Backoff was a huge part of the successful functioning of the ALOHAnet beginning in 1971, and in the 1980s it was baked into TCP, becoming a critical part of the Internet. All these decades later, it still is. As one influential paper puts it, “For a transport endpoint embedded in a network of unknown topology and with an unknown, unknowable and constantly changing population of competing conversations, only one scheme has any hope of working—exponential backoff.

  

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• I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

  

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• If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.

  

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• That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

  

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• So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

  

  Bill Bruford Yes