Hasso Plattner Quotes
The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.
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I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.
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All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.
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I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
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The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.
