Fred Brooks Quotes

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.

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• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Sad

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Business
  • Name

• Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Dying
  • Try
  • Medicine

• There is something joyous about not talking.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Something
  • Talking
  • Joyous

• When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Person
  • Place
  • Homeless

• Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Government
  • Accounting

• People don't like to make mistakes.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Like
  • Mistakes

• Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Father
  • Reading

• The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Freedom
  • Lost
  • Day

• When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Character
  • Myself
  • See

• I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Healthy
  • Where

• He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

  

  Quintilian
  • Opportunity
  • Evil
  • Only

• I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Love
  • Loved
  • More

• The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • God
  • Mind

• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Job
  • Age
  • Interesting

• I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Good
  • Never
  • Math

• It's been good to go against guys like that and play well. But I still have a long way to go. Those are two of the best doing it right now. When you add Yao Ming and Jermaine O'Neal into the mix, those are the best centers in the league right now, so they are the guys you really want to play well against.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Play
  • Guys
  • League

• By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Thinking
  • Process
  • Kitchen

• It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.

  

  Andrei Linde
  • Future
  • Chance
  • Look

• My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.

  

  Billie Lourd
  • Life
  • College

• When you had the fangs in, you wanted to be a little bit careful that you didn't actually pierce the jugular, kind of like my experience shaving Alan Rickman, which by the way neither of us want to do again, especially Alan.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Experience
  • Alan Rickman

• Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.

  

  Fred Brooks