Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
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I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
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I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
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It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
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I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
