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

• The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Job
  • House

• After the second day, he's got it mastered, too. He's just a guy who takes a lot of pride in what we ask him to do.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Pride
  • Mastered

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Men
  • Struggle
  • Stupid

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

  

  Fred Brooks