Fred Brooks Quotes

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

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• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I talk to the universe all the time.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Talk

• Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Challenge
  • Democracy
  • Professional

• Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

  

  Larry David
  • Very
  • Walk
  • Casual

• I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • House
  • Reality
  • Acting

• So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Own
  • Praise
  • Others

• Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Girl
  • Faster
  • East Coast

• I've always loved to perform in front of people, but it became pretty serious when I participated in 'Sweden's Got Talent.' I thought it would be a fun thing to do, and I was just like, 'OK, why not?' And Mom was like, 'OK, sure, sure, do this!' So I did, and I won it!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• I love apple juice.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Love
  • Apple
  • Juice

• I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Husband
  • Doing

• Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • World
  • Character
  • Emotions

• I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Family
  • Money
  • Mother

• I think 'Heroine' was Kareena Kapoor's best ever role of her career.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Career
  • Best

• There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Wonderful
  • London
  • Places

• The reason why all those we have mentioned hold false opinions and make impious or ignorant assertions about God appears to be nothing else but this, that scripture is not understood in its spiritual sense, but is interpreted according to the bare letter.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Why
  • Spiritual

• You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Trying
  • Peace
  • Problems

• I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • People
  • Mind
  • Car

• Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Real
  • Desire
  • Beginning

• These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

  

  Clara Zetkin
  • Society

• The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

  

  Fred Brooks