Andrew Plotkin Quotes

If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

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• Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

  

  Nat King Cole
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  • Good
  • Work

• That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Work
  • Want
  • Morning

• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

  

  Damien Hirst
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  • Place
  • Dead

• I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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  • Different
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• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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  • Responsibility
  • Quality

• I really wanted to work and become independent.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Become

• The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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  • Collaborate
  • Louis Vuitton

• You know, sometimes if you work – if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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  • Help
  • Tired

• When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

  

  Sada Thompson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • End

• Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Work
  • You
  • Language

• I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Work
  • Power

• To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • Up
  • Work
  • Persistence

• I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Work
  • Better
  • Train

• As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

  

  Harold Ramis
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  • Great
  • Believe

• Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
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  • Completion

• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mood

• Whoever has looked into the eyes of Jesus as he appears to us in his words knows that true happiness consists of service to this great One and his Spirit - and a life offerred to his work. Those who accept this mode of life, who know how to live it, become brothers and sisters.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

  

  Joe Manchin
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Work
  • Music
  • Mind

• I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

  

  John Hench
  • People
  • Art

• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Chance

• That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

  

  Isobelle Carmody
  • Laughter
  • Crying
  • Caged

• If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

  

  Andrew Plotkin
  • Work
  • System
  • Consistent