Terry Hayes Quotes

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

Terry Hayes

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• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Lying
  • Almost
  • Spy

• Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

  

  Ovid
  • Lying
  • Very
  • Step

• In each of us lies sleeping beauty, wasted potential, dying dreams. We sleep and live in dormant twilight, never knowing what it means to live, to love the bits of heaven that we can unearth deep in our hearts; not recognizing that our salvation is ever-present in those parts that we have disowned, denied, forgotten. The thorns of fear thwart faint attempt. The prince is courage, the kiss believing and then with these our life begins.

  

  Kay Thompson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• The purpose of computers is human freedom.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Freedom
  • Purpose
  • Humans

• The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Power
  • Enough
  • Lying

• The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Ideas
  • Lying

• If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Needs

• But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Mind
  • True
  • Evil

• I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

  

  April Winchell
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Computer

• That wand’s more trouble than it’s worth,” said Harry. “And quite honestly,” he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, “I’ve had enough trouble for a lifetime.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Lying

• Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Book
  • Moving
  • Lies

• If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • People
  • Men
  • True

• Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Women
  • Lying

• When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Future
  • Struggle

• Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.

  

  David Deida
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Suffering

• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Sea

• A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.

  

  Buck Owens
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Pretty much every record I've ever done, I can go back and listen to them and be proud. I'm proud of everything I've done.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Proud
  • Record
  • Listen

• I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • School
  • Poor
  • Hated

• Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Letters
  • Leisure
  • Intervals

• Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them burned out years ago, but their light is just now reaching earth. DogbertThank you for shattering my comfortable misconception. DilbertIt's the miracle of science.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Night
  • Science
  • Earth

• Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

  

  Terry Hayes
  • Lying
  • Computer
  • Liars