Andrew S. Tanenbaum Quotes
Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
Quotes to Explore
-
Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
-
Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
-
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
-
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
-
I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
-
Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
-
There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
-
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
-
People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
-
The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
-
If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
-
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
-
Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
-
Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
-
People ask me all the time, 'What is it like being on set for a show about trans people?' And this is a state of normalcy to me.
-
I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
-
I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
-
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-
We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.
-
I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard.
-
Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
