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'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.
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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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And I'd like to say this to Sir James Goldsmith.......who has got nothing to be smug about, and I would like to say that 1,500 votes is a derisory total. We have shown tonight that the Referendum Party is dead in the water, and Sir James can get off back to Mexico knowing your attempt to buy the British political system has failed.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.
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My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?
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During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
