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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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 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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Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.
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With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
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We can make this country the garden of Eden.
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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
