Jeff Minter Quotes

I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

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• Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.

  

  Karen McDougal
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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
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• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
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• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
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• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
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  • Memory
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• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
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• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
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• I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
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• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Remember
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• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  

  Ovid
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  • Child
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• It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
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• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  

  Zahi Hawass
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• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
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• I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Love
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• There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Help
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• It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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• I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.

  

  Ann Maxwell
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Teacher

• I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

  

  Marco Brambilla
  • Music
  • Different
  • Art

• The laws of supply and demand drive up the price, inevitably, over time. But solar and wind are abundant and renewable resources.

  

  Van Jones
  • Up
  • Time
  • Law

• Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • God
  • Experience
  • Error

• I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

  

  Jeff Minter
  • Mind