Michael Perlis Quotes
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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.
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Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
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You become a great writer by writing.
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I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
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We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.
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Kövecses radiated the sense of self-sufficiency that comes about when there are lots of children in a big house.
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I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
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The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.
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I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.
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Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
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I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.
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If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.
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The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.
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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
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Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.
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I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.
