Fred Brooks Quotes

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

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• Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Chicago
  • Comfort
  • Sounds

• I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Crazy
  • About
  • Jewelry

• My real last name is Galifianakisburg.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Real
  • Name
  • Last

• A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Heroic

• I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Love

• I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Long
  • Live
  • City

• The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Independent
  • Police

• I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Around
  • Lived
  • Corner

• I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Thought
  • Movies
  • Loved

• Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Love
  • Experience

• Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Child
  • Old

• I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Know
  • Singing

• I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Reading

• The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Mind
  • Light
  • Eye

• I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • High
  • New

• My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

  

  Bob Dylan

• People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Different
  • Children
  • Book

• I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Trying
  • Nice
  • Focus

• So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Money
  • Done

• Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!And if upon its stillness fallThe visions of a busy brain,We'll have our pleasure o'er again,To warm the heart, to charm the sight,Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.

  

  Joanna Baillie
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Night

• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

  

  Fred Brooks