Andrew S. Tanenbaum Quotes
With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.
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Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.
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Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.
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You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.
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My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
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I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.
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Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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Talk to strangers. They're never who you think they are at first.
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I'm going to keep working hard, and I will be happy to play anywhere for the country. I'm young and would like to play anywhere.
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I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world. They made me America's Number one Pin Up.
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One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.
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And as husbands and fathers and brothers, we have to step up - because every girl’s life matters. Every daughter deserves the same chance as our sons. Every woman should be able to go about her day - to walk the streets or ride the bus - and be safe, and be treated with respect and dignity. She deserves that.
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With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.
