Alfred Aho Quotes

Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.

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• Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Me
  • Down
  • Refuse

• I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Designer
  • Overpacker

• I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Model
  • Library
  • Partner

• Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Content

• On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Look
  • Director

• There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Single
  • Universe
  • Content

• Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Internet
  • Content

• I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Content
  • Prefer

• What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Days

• As a rule, one should never place form over content.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Never
  • Place
  • Content

• That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Happy
  • Lost
  • Content

• Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Realize
  • Content

• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Failure
  • Content

• The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Strong
  • Taken
  • Content

• The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Learning
  • Understanding
  • Content

• I refuse to make uninspired music.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Refuse
  • Uninspired

• I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Happy
  • Refuse

• The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams. Turn to what truly lives, reject what seems -- Which matters more, the body or the soul? Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole.

  

  Farid al-Din Attar
  • Soul
  • Dreams
  • Eternity

• Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

  

  Steve Wozniak
  • Designer
  • Category
  • Right Place

• We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Art
  • Science
  • Alone

• Danki,” John said. But Naomi noticed he didn’t look very happy about it. Nick pulled the van up to the ER entrance and they piled in—Naomi and Leah in.

  

  Barbara Cameron
  • Happy
  • Pulled
  • Entrance

• Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.

  

  Alfred Aho
  • Content
  • Designer
  • Refuse