Fred Brooks Quotes
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity … because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
Ted McGinley
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
Edan Lepucki
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter Lippmann
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob Bronowski
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I take my work seriously.
Daniel Craig
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
Earl Weaver
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Van Jones
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Samantha Power
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Amity Shlaes
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.
Bob Livingston
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
Oscar de la Renta
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I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.
Madeleine Albright
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Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity … because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.
Fred Brooks