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.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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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.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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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.
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The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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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.
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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?
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
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That is why a criminal trial is not a search for truth. Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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I often think what I’m saying is for the people who never had a chance to be heard.
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Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations."
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My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.
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It’s a sad thing that the march of time and evolution of mores can rob one of the ability to laugh at simple domestic abuse.
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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
