Fred Brooks Quotes
Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work.
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People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.
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Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.
