Fred Brooks Quotes

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. … Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

Fred Brooks

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• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Grow

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Respect
  • Passion
  • Proud

• I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Remember
  • Change
  • Control

• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • First
  • Safety
  • Strive

• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Color

• Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Dead
  • Killed

• Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Interest
  • Oil
  • Mess

• We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Women
  • Proud

• When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Thought
  • Fresh
  • Them

• Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Career
  • Play
  • Rock

• Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• 'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Friend

• I was the first person that had been so kind to Iman Abdulmajid. As time went on, and she became successful, signed with an agency, when she had to make big decisions, she wouldn't always talk to an agent, she'd ask me. I'd give her good advice and she'd be on her way. When I had ideas to do things like the Black Girls Coalition, I would always talk to her, she always loved my ideas. She trusts me.

  

  Bethann Hardison
  • Decisions
  • Agency
  • Trusts

• What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Question
  • Voice

• I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Desire
  • Thought
  • Quitting

• Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy.

  

  Nestor Carbonell
  • Up
  • Character
  • History

• My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

  

  Chen Guangcheng
  • Family
  • Safety

• The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. … Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Question
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